Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait for a long-period comet to arrive in the inner solar system then set off on ...
In a headline straight out of Hitchhiker’s Guide, astronomers say they’ve confirmed that a mysterious object observed in 2018, dubbed “Farfarout,” is indeed the farthest known object orbiting the Sun.
A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself ...
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