Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as an interstellar ...

The Solar System, home to Earth and countless other fascinating planets and moons, exists within the Milky Way galaxy. But ...

A lone body, making one passage around the Sun for every ten by Neptune, is rewriting the rules of planetary dynamics in the ...

There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...

The newly discovered world — a "sednoid" — challenges what planetary scientists thought they knew about the edge of the solar ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and ...

For Harold Kozak, one of life’s greatest pleasures is the opportunity to educate the public about the stars and the vast ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...