Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

The object, a celestial body from another star system, was discovered on Tuesday by the University of Hawaii’s Asteroid ...

The ultra-rare object is travelling at about 245,000 kilometres an hour and will fly deep into the solar system, skimming past Mars.

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

Alpha Centauri isn't the only star system we've identified in this kind of detail, either. In 2023, scientists discovered a six-planet solar system 100 light years away in the constellation Coma ...

The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory show details of our Solar System with unprecedented clarity.

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

A diagram showing the distances from the sun to various solar system features, including the Oort Cloud. (Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) "Our simulations follow the orbits of millions of 'test ...

So far, astronomers have discovered 5,885 planets around other stars (known as exoplanets) in the Milky Way.Add in the eight in our solar system (not nine, sorry Pluto), and that gives us a total ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

Our solar system is made up of the sun and all the amazing objects that travel around it. Learn more about the planets, asteroids, and comets in our solar system. 3:55 ...