A recent announcement from astronomers has everyone buzzing! A "visitor" has entered the solar system, and can you guess what ...

Pluto, once the ninth planet, remains one of the most fascinating worlds in our solar system despite its reclassification as ...

Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object with interstellar origins that has defied ...

NASA is tracking a mysterious, fast-moving object entering our solar system, raising questions about whether it's just a comet — or possibly something more advanced.

"We were excited to see the growth of the tail, suggesting a change in the particles from the previous Gemini images." ...

So, while browsing an astronomy forum today, I suddenly came across some news that completely baffled me — the third ...

It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to study our Solar System’s planets. Voyager 1 would explore Jupiter and ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronaut Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...

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