There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

There's some bizarre action going on with 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar object which some have claimed could be an 'alien threat ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

NASA research reveals that the heliosphere, our solar system's protective bubble, may resemble a deflated croissant rather than a comet. This new mode ...

The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from ...

OSIRIS-REx samples from Bennu contain stardust older than the Sun, preserving clues to the solar system’s earliest history.

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Today, let's talk about Pluto and Charon; these two have quite the story! Did you know that their 10-hour "intimate encounter" has shaken the field of astronomy to its core?