Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

“Because that’s still very interesting and brings you closer to the movements of the sun and moon — seeing the solar system in motion.” ...

The size of the solar system is defined by the volume of space over which the sun’s influence exceeds those of other nearby stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) detected significant nickel vapor but almost no iron in the interstellar 3I/Atlas comet. Having nickel without iron is not a ...

Discover the dramatic forces creating spectacular weather on neighboring planets and moons. Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid ...

What we know about the search for ‘Planet Nine’ in our solar system - The idea of a massive undiscovered planet has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s ...

A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently discovered dim star is likely to have passed through the solar system’s ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast-moving body using the world's most powerful telescopes. It was found ...

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third of its kind ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system. The object, dubbed ...

Are tiny black holes zipping through our solar system? Scientists hope to find out Scientists have studied black holes with the mass of a star for decades.

Dark matter does pervade the solar system like an invisible fog. We just lack the means to measure its effects on solar system bodies.

One particularly compelling aspect of 3I/ATLAS is the extended opportunity for observation. Unlike 1I/‘Oumuamua, which was discovered after perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) and while outbound ...