Astronomers have made an exciting discovery: a massive, shining object racing through our solar system. The object, which was ...

There is a fully tenured NASA spacecraft named Mars Odyssey that has been faithfully orbiting the Red Planet since October ...

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a small satellite already orbiting Earth. IBEX has special instruments gathering ...

Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...

A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Scientists have detected planet-forming pebbles around two young stars, providing insight into the birth of solar systems ...

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This week, astronomers spotted the third known interstellar visitor to our Solar System. First detected by the Asteroid ...

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb revealed that the object is expected to approach Earth on December 17, speeding through the solar ...