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The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...

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Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest-ever view of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing clues about ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third of its kind ever ...

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

The Solar System has a total of 419 known moons around planets. If we count dwarf planets, asteroids, and other worlds, the ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...