What is the Solar System truly like? In this video, we take a closer look at real images captured by NASA and other space agencies, showcasing our planets and the vast beauty of the Milky Way without ...

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...

John Casani, who has died aged 92, was an American spaceflight engineer who led the teams that pioneered Nasa’s explorations ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s ...

Jaw-dropping new images are the closest ever taken to the Sun. The latest close-ups, unveiled Thursday, July 10, were ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...