New research by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

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Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Pei, who founded Nothing in October 2020 with Akis Evangelidis, argued that true disruption would require rethinking the operating system itself, not just embedding AI tools within current platforms.

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On Oct. 29, at the same time 3I/ATLAS achieved perihelion, astrophotographer Dan Bartlett snapped a stunning shot of C/2025 K1 from June Lake in California. The image shows the comet with a distinct ...