When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Astronomers are studying 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet nearing the Sun. Despite viral claims calling it an 'alien ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, better known as ATLAS, detected a fast-moving object entering our solar system on an escape trajectory. Named 3I/ATLAS, it marks the third known ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is forcing scientists to rethink our understanding of comet formation. Unlike typical comets ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory about the possibility of a giant ninth planet. The dwarf planet's existence ...