Last year, an interstellar traveler entered our solar system. Some speculated that it was an alien spacecraft, but it turned ...

(International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez ...

Welcome to SolarBalls! This animated video presents the Solar System by Size, providing an engaging and educational ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...

Trying to understand the Universe is often less about seeing it clearly and more about accepting how quickly our intuition ...

Astronomers have revealed new details about the makeup and age of a visiting comet that was born around a distant star. They ...

Based on the composition of gases spewed by the icy space rock, researchers estimate that our guest might be up to 12 billion ...

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse – and subjects them to the ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...

What is the actual speed and direction of our solar system as it moves through the cosmos, and how does this compare to longstanding cosmology models? This is what a recent study published in Physical ...

The latest interstellar visitor to be discovered in our solar system was born somewhere in the universe that was nothing like our home and, according to a new study, a time long before the solar ...