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The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, ...

To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) deactivated Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Feb. 25. On March 24 ...

The ‘Sounds of Earth’ record being mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft (Nasa via AP) The twin spacecraft launched in 1977 and are currently in interstellar space, or the space between stars. Voyager 1 ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both exploring uncharted territory in interstellar space. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, sent a command for Voyager 1 to power ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

"We will certainly discover more than the two currently known interstellar visitors, 'Oumuamua and comet Borisov," Wiegert said. "This is an attempt to understand where the interstellar visitors ...

That’s just the start of interstellar awe in store this month. We have a best-of-year Mercury sighting, above-average potential for northern lights, and one of the last glimpses of the planet ...

The significance of a recent probable detection of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) as a potential biomarker has been challenged on the basis of its discovery in comet 67P/CG, a comet that wrongly came to be ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.