Humanity has walked on the Moon, explored Mars with rovers, and sent spacecraft beyond the edge of the solar system, yet the ...

The curious minds at What If imagine what a single day would be like on every planet in our solar system, exploring how ...

There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for astronomers to study an object born a long time ago in a star system far, far away.

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, a remarkable cosmic entity, began its journey far beyond our solar system, potentially expelled by a cataclysmic event from another star system. It made headlines when it approached ...

For the first time, an object in our solar system has been found more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the sun. The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center announced the ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...