The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Colonising the solar system is not being stopped by technology alone. Radiation isolation distance gravity and long term ...

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

Our planet is like a cosmic vehicle with no brakes, carrying all of us on several overlapping trips through the universe.

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

This hyperbolic Oort Cloud comet, on an inbound journey spanning millions of years, reached perihelion, closest position to ...

in search of perihelion ...

Stokey’s Solar Walk transforms the revetment between Bonchurch and Wheelers Bay into a to-scale model of our planetary neighbourhood.