The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

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

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

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

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

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

In a cosmic twist worthy of sci-fi, new research from Curtin University reveals that Earth’s crust may carry the fingerprints ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

New Curtin University research has uncovered a striking link between the structure of our galaxy and the evolution of Earth's ...

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

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

Importantly, the 6,000 figure is continuously updated as astronomers around the world confirm new planets, meaning no single planet is officially the 6,000th.