A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...
It’s often assumed that Earth is somehow separate from the rest of the universe. Yet changes in environments across the solar ...
What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...
The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.
The comet is on what’s known as a hyperbolic trajectory, which means that it doesn’t follow an orbital path around the sun.
Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...
As the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system, 3I/ATLAS is prime for new discoveries. It was ...
Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...
An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...
New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...
Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS is one of only three interstellar objects ever detected in our solar system. Scientists are working to determine the comet's size and physical characteristics as it passes through our ...