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NASA Detects New Interstellar Visitor to Our Solar System: Could It Be an Alien Probe?

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

Is There Actually A Ninth Planet In Our Solar System? Here's What We Know

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...
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Interstellar visitors like comet 3I/ATLAS are the most common objects in the Milky Way: 'There's almost always one within the solar system'

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...
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Astronomers uncover a hidden world on the solar system’s edge

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...
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Where is our solar system’s super-Earth?

Super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, planets with sizes between Earth and Neptune, constitute approximately one-third of known exoplanets but are absent in our solar system. Their prevalence elsewhere and ...