Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...

Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) might be the brightest comet of the year, scientists predict.

In 2017, ‘Oumuamua stunned scientists as the interstellar object entered and then exited the solar system, something previously unprecedented in the world of astronomy. In 2019, the comet Borisov was ...

Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

Aliens may have lived in our solar system, according to new research. NASA scientists have unveiled evidence that the dwarf planet Ceres—the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and ...

Greetings stargazers. Everything we know about things outside of our solar system is from the light we receive. I am using ...