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

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

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

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

Xinting Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio, is one of two recipients of the 2025 Harold C. Urey Prize. The national award from ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

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

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

Astronomers worldwide are tracking 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object, currently traversing our solar system.