Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

You might think we know the solar system pretty well, but there's a lot more to our cosmic neighborhood than initially meets the eye (or telescope). Most of the good stuff, such as the planets, moons ...

Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

A mysterious interstellar object has recently captured the attention of astronomers worldwide. This enigmatic visitor, observed sprouting a tendril-like structure extending toward the Sun, challenges ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now on its way out of our solar system, never to return. The comet was only the third-ever ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS showed changing chemistry near the Sun, revealing clues about its internal structure and offering ...

A Harvard scientist has suggested that our Solar System may be far more crowded with interstellar objects, chunks of rock or ice from other star systems, than anyone realized. Avi Loeb, who made ...

Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and his colleagues — Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen — are once again redefining our solar system’s edge. They ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — Angelo State University’s (ASU) Department of Physics and Geosciences explains the new object in our solar system that was announced on July 15 and ...

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system.Scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar object to pass ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times ...