SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Eight planets, hundreds of moons, hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and billions of comets orbiting our Sun make up our ...

While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

NASA’s Hubble Telescope captures a stunning image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with a 40,000 km glowing halo around its coma. Learn what makes this rare comet special, why it matters to science, and ...

The image was taken when the exocomet was nearly 178 million miles away from Earth. In its blog describing the new picture, NASA remarked, Because the object comes from outside our solar system, it is ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed ...

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

The 3I/ATLAS object is unusual because it came to the Solar System from “interstellar space.” 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar ...

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

Last month, the European Space Agency used five of the science instruments attached to its JUICE spacecraft to examine ...

About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.