A newly discovered interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, has sparked debate in the scientific community after Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and his team proposed a speculative idea-that it might be an alien ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Two new dwarf planet models are being added to the roadside attraction that has inspired curiosity and community pride for ...

You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...

Kid’s Barbie solar system science project goes viral A nine-year-old Colorado student’s science project has gone viral, capturing the internet’s attention with its creativity.

You can see the recently identified "interstellar object" 3I/ATLAS shooting towards us through the solar system in a ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Emery is a collaborator on a project that will use the JWST to observe 59 TNOs. “The TNO population includes some of the most primitive bodies in the solar system,” Emery said.

A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar System. Named 2023 KQ14, this rare “sednoid” follows an unusual orbit that ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet and the solar system seem like a lot to fit in 4 ...

Artificial intelligence trained by asteroid-hunting citizen scientists helped identify more than 1,000 never-before-seen solar system objects from old Hubble images spanning two decades.