Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our ...
This third confirmed interstellar comet to enter our neighborhood has captivated astronomers and sparked debate within the scientific community. NASA ...
The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...
The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it ...
According to a NASA study, Saturn's moon Titan may be the most fantastically large slushie of all time. Based on a ...
Astronomers detected an object moving faster than anything ever recorded in our solar system. It didn’t orbit the Sun — it passed straight through. Its size, speed, and chemical makeup don’t match ...
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Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...
Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy Club members Krystyna Goulette and Kaitlyn Goulette, president of the Club, ...