Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

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

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

It’s been nearly 2 centuries since a planet was discovered in the solar system. But now scientists think they’ve uncovered ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...