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3/I Atlas: a rare comet from beyond our solar system is being closely tracked – what can it teach us?

Only the third interstellar comet ever to be seen contains material from other star systems that can be observed close up

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European Mars orbiter spies interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zooming past Red Planet (photos)

A European Mars probe witnessed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS' Red Planet flyby on Oct. 3, snapping imagery of the interloper from just 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) away.

Space

Chanel front row: Every A-lister you could possibly care about turned up for Matthieu Blazy's debut

Matthieu Blazy’s solar system-set first collection for Chanel brought all the stars out

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Showmanship returns at Chanel as designer Blazy debuts under a sky of planets

At Paris Fashion Week, Chanel's creative director Matthieu Blazy opened the season’s most anticipated debut beneath colossal celestial bodies — Saturn with its rings, a full solar system suspended above a jet-black, mirror-bright runway — staking a claim for theater from the first second

The Independent UK

Signs of life? Why Saturn moon offers hope of finding ET in Earth’s back yard

Discovery of wide array of carbon-based substances on Enceladus shows solar system is fertile hunting ground

The Guardian - UK

Astrophotographers capture dazzling new views of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) as it brightens for October skies

See stunning photos of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) as it brightens ahead of a possible naked eye appearance in mid-October.

Space

How to discover a planet

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor and his PhD student Didier Queloz, working at the University of Geneva, announced they had detected a planet orbiting…

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Experts discover huge rogue planet growing at fastest rate ever detected

Free-floating planet is consuming gas and dust at a rate of six billion tonnes a second

The Independent UK

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will be eyed by Mars and Jupiter probes as it zooms past the sun this month

ESA is making use of spacecraft originally dedicated to its Mars and Jupiter missions to track comet 3I/ATLAS as it continues its journey through our solar system

Space

Newly discovered comet 'Lemmon' may be visible to the naked eye this month — but it will look more like a lime

Comet Lemmon, discovered earlier this year, will make a close approach to Earth later this month, giving skywatchers the chance to see its surprising lime-green glow.

LiveScience

James Webb telescope spies a 'farting' dwarf planet with fluorescent gas in the outer solar system

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into space.

LiveScience

A tiny Apollo 17 moon rock is unlocking a secret lunar history

A moon rock brought back over 50 years ago by the Apollo 17 mission has been connected with the birth of the Sea of Serenity — if true, it means the lunar mare formed hundreds of millions of years earlier than thought.

Space

SpaceX launches 3 probes to study space weather and map the boundaries of our solar system (video)

NASA's IMAP mission and two other spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday morning (Sept. 24) to study space weather and its effects on Earth.

Space

Why does Pluto have such a weird orbit?

The dwarf planet has a strange orbit and tilt — what gives?

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Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust have captured the movement of the Milky Way’s spiral arms

When most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents slowly drifting apart (or back together again) over millions or billions of years. We also know meteorite impacts were important; our crater-packed Moon is clear evidence of that.

Space

Interstellar visitors like comet 3I/ATLAS are the most common objects in the Milky Way: 'There's almost always one within the solar system'

Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the Milky Way — and our best chance to study other planetary systems.

LiveScience

Where could alien life exist in our solar system?

The solar system has eight planets and hundreds of moons. Could extraterrestrials live on any of them?

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Chance for hillwalkers to find meteorite fragments in Scotland – here's how

Hillwalkers have a “very exciting” opportunity to find meteorite fragments which scattered over Scotland this summer, researchers have said ...

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The Independent UK

‘Fireball’ gives munro-baggers chance to collect meteorite fragments for first time in 100 years

The last time a meteorite was recovered in Scotland was 1917

The Independent UK

Munro-baggers urged to look out for meteorite fragments after summer fireball

The bright meteor was witnessed by by some Scots as it streaked across the sky in the early hours of Thursday July 3.

The Guardian - US

Interstellar overhype: Nasa debunks claim about alien-made comet

Nasa dismisses theory by Harvard astronomer who suggested an object from beyond the solar system could be a relic from a distant civilization

Space

Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid. 'It was a genuine surprise!'

Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than previously thought, changing our perception of the early solar system.

Space

SpaceX targets Sept. 23 for launch of NASA's IMAP mission to map the boundaries of our solar system

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on Sept. 23 will send three spacecraft a million miles from Earth to map the heliosphere and expand our understanding of space weather and atmospheric science.

The Independent UK

Strange interstellar object hurtling towards Earth has now grown a tail, astronomers say

Comet travelling on an orbit that would carry it back into interstellar space

Space

Ready for the next 'Oumuamua? Launching flyby missions to visiting interstellar comets is 'feasible and affordable,' study says

Conducting a flyby mission to an interstellar object visiting our solar system is "feasible and affordable," a new study finds. But orbiting such an interloper is a different story.

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