Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with what people think is up and what is down. Things fall down toward the ground, but that ...

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An interstellar comet can glow in X-rays even while remaining hundreds of millions of kilometers away. That is what makes 3I/ATLAS unusually valuable to astronomers. The object, only the third known ...

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The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth’s climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe. This year’s budget expires at the end of ...