NASA has discovered 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object, now passing through our solar system from the ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

Simulations Of Early Solar Systems Find Up To 40 Percent Chance That Planet Nine Exists Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.

Now located halfway between the sun and the solar system's furthest planet, Neptune (or 16.6 times the distance between the Earth and our star), C/2014 UN271 becomes the second-most distant comet ...

A team of astronomers has discovered an exoplanet with one of the tightest orbit around its star, and it seems to be ...

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in elliptical trajectories, and they are all different in size, composition, ...

Welcome to the new Sun competition! This time, the winner will be the heaviest planet! SolarBalls offers space animation filled with fun, entertaining segments that also help you learn about the solar ...

"In fact, if XUE 1 was placed at the location of our solar system's sun, it would receive 100,000 times less UV energy every second than it does right now," Bayron Portilla Revelo, a postdoctoral ...

Astronomy show accidentally reveals unseen structure in our solar system Javier Torres/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource The Vera C. Rubin Observatory By CNN Newssource today at 11:33 AM ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun.