A rare interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is currently traversing our solar system, offering scientists a unique chance to ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

The Gaia space telescope has measured the acceleration of the Solar System when it orbits the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Solar System motion relative to the stars agrees with the results by ...

Astronomers detect unexplained acceleration in interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as Avi Loeb suggests an artificial 'engine' can't ...

The Asteroid 2025 PN7 will orbit near the Earth as a quasi-moon until 2083, when it will drift away at high speed after ...

What Matters Now • The extraordinary discovery of the “twilight” asteroid 2025 SC79, detected by the Dark Energy Camera, ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are predicted to collide and merge between 3.9 and 5.6 billion years from now, based on observed relative motion. The merger process will involve multiple ...

It is a question that feels like it should have a straightforward answer: how many planets are there in our solar system? Since Pluto was relegated back down to dwarf planet status, almost everyone ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Have you ever wondered just how big space really is? It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on ...