Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait for a long-period comet to arrive in the inner solar system then set off on ...
Astronomers using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found a distant object in the direction of Alpha Centauri. The object appears to be in the outer region of our ...
Object recognition is one of the core topics in computer vision research: After all, a computer that can see isn't much use if it has no idea what it's looking at. Researchers have developed new ...
For the first time in recorded history, scientists have detected an interstellar object in our native solar system. NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) announced on Thursday that an ...
Astronomers have spotted the second object ever known to visit our solar system from another star system. The object is expected to fly near Mars in October. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) ...
The primate visual system is broadly organized into two segregated pathways, a ventral stream that includes areas of temporal cortex and is involved in object vision and a dorsal stream that includes ...
The first observed interstellar object blazed through our solar system more than two years ago. Astronomers scrambled to observe the object in October 2017 before it disappeared, and their ...
New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, leaving a lasting imprint on the orbits of our planets. This intriguing ...
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Astronomers have discovered the most distant object ever found in our solar system. The planetoid — the term for a small chunk of rock or dust or ice orbiting the sun — is appropriately nicknamed ...
The visitor from the stars, designated 3I/Atlas, is likely the largest yet detected, and has been classified as a comet, or cosmic snowball. "It looks kind of fuzzy," Peter Veres, an astronomer with ...