3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

Researchers have been focusing on the study of our solar system for centuries, looking at the physics, dynamics, as well as the composition of solar system bodies. Our solar system – which includes ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

Groundbreaking advances in solar and space physics have provided key insights into the inner workings of the heliosphere, the vast protective bubble formed by the solar wind that extends from the Sun ...

As the Sun and its planets orbit the center of the galaxy, we carve out a path that scientists have previously calculated should take a little less than a quarter of a billion years.But this new ...

James O'Donoghue went viral for the first time in December 2018. He was a planetary scientist for NASA at the time, but the federal government had temporarily shut down due to budget disputes in ...

J. Horner, S. R. Kane, J. P. Marshall, P. A. Dalba, T. R. Holt, J. Wood, H. E. Maynard-Casely, R. Wittenmyer, P. S. Lykawka, M. Hill, R. Salmeron, J. Bailey, T ...

Stellar rings: an infrared image of rings around a star that was taken by ALMA. (Courtesy: ALMA/ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) The clear divide between the inner and outer solar system is the legacy of a ring ...

We should start with some data. I can do a screen capture of the loading screen and then use my favorite video analysis program (Tracker Video Analysis) to get position and time data. Of course, the ...

Over the past three decades, we have witnessed one of the great revolutions in our understanding of the cosmos—the dawn of the Exoplanet Era. Where once we knew of just one planetary system (the solar ...