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

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour. The giant asteroid will be at its closest ...

“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks ...

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

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

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

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

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 ...

According to Dean Duffy, the new NASA administrator, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover was the "clearest sign ...

Three celestial bodies are about to meet up for one night in September in a conjunction that should be widely visible in the U.S. – including Florida.