The Solar System might not be as quiet and orderly as we think. Imagine one day looking up and seeing something strange in the sky, a small speck that grows larger and larger. Soon, it becomes clear: ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

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An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just flew by the sun. Next, the object will fly by Earth in ...

"'Oumuamua is in a different category of object. It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them." The first interstellar object to visit the solar system may have been a fragment of an icy ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...