Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

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

A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that ...

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

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...