Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has gathered significant scientific attention, and soon it will reach its closest point to ...
For nearly five decades, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have ventured farther than any other human-made object, pushing ...
The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...
There are a few ways you could define the edge of the Solar System – for instance ... which ultimately travels past all the planets to some three times the distance to Pluto before being impeded by ...
Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is still full of surprises — an unexpected brightening has scientists baffled ...
The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.
A possible cousin of Pluto seems to be circling the far reaches of the solar system. The dwarf planet candidate 2017 OF201 travels in a superwide orbit, with the sun relatively near one end of its ...
There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...