The orbiter, which is part of the nation's ongoing Tianwen 1 mission for Mars exploration, took the images of the comet, coded 3I/ATLAS, on Oct 3 as it whizzed past the Red Planet. It is the third ...

Visual: In this diagram, J, S, U, and N are the solar system’s giant planets. What’s the collective name for the objects in ...

To receive the same amount of starlight as Mars receives from our sun, a planet orbiting an M-type red dwarf would have to be positioned much closer to its star than Mercury is to the sun. Disclaimer: ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is passing safely through our solar system. Learn about its discovery, its distant path, and why ...

When the interstellar object now known as 3I/ATLAS was discovered this summer by NASA’s ATLAS telescope in Chile, astronomers ...

CLEVELAND — With so much focus on the total solar eclipse right now, I thought some stellar solar system facts would shake up your universe. Let me take you back to grade school and the solar system ...

While most scientists believe it’s a natural comet, one Harvard astronomer has suggested its unusual features could hint at ...