As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of ...

The data obtained by Webb had two things that took researchers by surprise.

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The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

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During the height of the Space Race, space exploration occupied a much larger place in American culture and education.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the third object ever confirmed to have originated beyond our solar system, is heading back into deep space on a trajectory that will carry it away from the Sun ...