Astronomers predict it will pass relatively close to four planets (but not Earth) and the Sun, then continue its cosmic ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University / Jason Rowe / NASA Ames Research Center ...

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

Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

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

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

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

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 ...