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

The odd nature of 3I/ATLAS led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything that might align with an alien spacecraft.

Astronomers simply can't shake the feeling that there's something really off about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The ...

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for ...

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...

Most of our knowledge about the Solar System’s formation and evolution comes from the study of extraterrestrial rock samples called chondritic meteorites. These rocks, which are fragments of asteroids ...

Astronomers have discovered a large trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, at the edge of the solar system. Its strange orbit ...

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The recently discovered interstellar object 3I/Atlas is set for a close flyby of Mars in October, where it can be observed by ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals. These mineral ...