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 ...

Current estimates suggest 3I/ATLAS may be up to 12 miles in diameter. According to physicist Marshall Eubanks, the object appears to be arriving from the thin galactic disk, the plane in which most ...

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

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

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

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

Putting panels over canals could power millions of homes and saves billions of gallons of water—all with minimal community ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...