"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

NASA has just made a groundbreaking discovery—a new planet beyond Neptune that wasn’t there before! This mysterious find ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

Indian scientists from the Physical Research Laboratory have discovered a massive exoplanet, TOI-6038A b, 78 times larger ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet ... could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...