Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

A comet born around a distant star is now tearing through our solar system at roughly 150,000 miles per hour, and astronomers have only a few months to study it before it disappears forever.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun and swung by Earth last year could be nearly three times older than our solar ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has spent the last several months on a tour of our solar system. NASA spacecraft and telescopes have snapped photos of this celestial visitor over the course of its journey ...

New infrared observations from NASA's SPHEREx reveal interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS brightening as it exits the solar system, releasing water vapor, carbon dioxide, dust and organic compounds months ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman wants to put an end to a decades-long debate among scientists. Is Pluto a planet or not? Isaacman says it should be — but it hasn't been one for 20 years. That's ...

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LOVELAND, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Opterus has received a $10.2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract from NASA to provide the structural deployment system for the agency ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our solar system that could support life in some form.