The odd nature of 3I/ATLAS led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything that ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

A Jupiter-like planet has been found orbiting a young sun-like star in a solar system far away in what is a potentially ...

NASA is tracking a mysterious, fast-moving object entering our solar system, raising questions about whether it's just a ...

The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the sun into two groups, tracing each back to a different kind of outburst from ...

NASA research reveals that the heliosphere, our solar system's protective bubble, may resemble a deflated croissant rather than a comet. This new mode ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) detected significant nickel vapor but almost no iron in the interstellar 3I/Atlas comet.

Bennu's parent body is part of the Polana family of asteroids. A history of collisions created Bennu, and its original parent ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

A first-of-its kind AI-powered model attempts to better predict space weather and its impacts. The model — called Surya, for ...