The concept, ripped from a Star Trek episode, would fill Earth's orbit with satellites to harness energy from the Sun and block out solar rays to help cool the climate.

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Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.

While most scientists believe it’s a natural comet, one Harvard astronomer has suggested its unusual features could hint at ...

Scientists spotted a piece of rock following planet Earth earlier this year, but older photos show it's actually been ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

Avi Loeb suggested that if 3I/ATLAS is a spacecraft, it may use its proximity to the Sun's powerful gravitational pull while ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...