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

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

A newly discovered object, dubbed A11pl3Z, appears to be moving too fast and straight to have originated in the solar system.

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

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

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth.

Our solar system is in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way, ... We know a lot about our Milky Way Galaxy’s location in the universe thanks to efforts to map the distances to nearby galaxies.

A team from the University of Birmingham has found an ancient planetary system that is 11.2 billion years old (illustration shown), suggesting life in the universe is more common than thought.

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 ...

Then, our solar system would not even register if you were to get a snap shot of the galaxy that we are in, the Milky Way – which is around 950,000,000,000,000,000 kilometres wide.