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 ...

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

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

For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other stars besides our sun. Nebula jar.

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 ...