You remember ’Oumuamua? In 2017 astronomers detected, for the first time, an interstellar object in the inner Solar System. What is it? How did it get here? Is it aliens? Discovered on October 19, ...

Two years ago, scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) found evidence to suggest that a mysterious planet larger than Earth could be hiding beyond the orbit of Pluto, in the ...

Avi Loeb keeps interstellar object 3I/ATLAS at rank 4 on his classification scale as scientists await new data from its 2026 Jupiter flyby.

This fall, writing and fine arts students collaborated to make ordinary objects extraordinary. The Third Mind Project involved students in the two disciplines coming together to elevate everyday ...

In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic stars, with the discovery of a magnetar. Magnetars are a type of neutron star, which are incredibly dense objects mainly made ...

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