The colliding objects are at least 37 miles across — at least four times larger than the object that collided with Earth 66 ...

On Friday, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its nearest approach to Earth. Here's what you need to know, and how to track ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar system. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 was not just the triumph of mathematics ...

A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...

Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...

Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, a 33-billion-ton object that's older than our solar system, will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday. Scientists are ...

In 2004, a bright point of light in the debris disk surrounding Fomalhaut was thought to be an exoplanet. But the spot ...

Astronomers directly imaged two separate collisions between rocky objects in the Fomalhaut star system. Scientists previously ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the ...