Every time an interstellar object comes whizzing into our Solar System, it brings with it a certain intrigue ... the “hypothesis is an interesting exercise in its own right, and is fun to pursue, ...

NASA Hubble Space Telescope, New Horizons and Lucy missions are examples of the missions that are leading to discoveries about the "fossils of our solar system," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

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

NASA unveiled a new discovery inside our solar system. We had only seen these big lakes filled with water on Earth - but this ...

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

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

For over a century, astronomers have wondered if there’s an extra planet in our Solar System that we haven’t been able to detect yet. It seems like we get another “Planet Nine” candidate — formerly ...

Astronomers from the University of Arizona helped detect a baby planet outside of our solar system. Specialized telescopes from Arizona and Chile contributed to the discovery.

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...