There is a direct link between Earth's crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way's structure, as ...

The nearest star beyond our Sun is Proxima Centauri, and while it sounds close in astronomical terms, the journey there […] ...

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

As China advances renewables and the U.S. returns to fossil fuels, the power of energy technology leadership is shifting ...

The small asteroid, located in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, was visited by Lucy on April 20, 2025, during a ...

A new AI model from NYU Abu Dhabi predicts solar wind days in advance with far greater accuracy than existing methods. By analyzing ultraviolet solar images, it could help protect satellites, ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

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

Interstellar objects like comet 3I/ATLAS, unbound to our sun, regularly visit our solar system. These objects are considered the most common macroscopic entities in the Milky Way.

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...

Andrews’s article notes that the cause of the observed acceleration of some items passing through our solar system is unclear ...