Discover the mysterious 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar visitor to our solar system! Was it an asteroid, comet, or an alien ...

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

Exploration of the outer solar system is offering critical clues about its history. Scientists have uncovered new details ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

Our Moon orbits the Earth. All of the other planets except Mercury and Venus have at least one moon. The Sun is the largest ... The Solar System also contains objects called comets.

sitting in the Kuiper Belt - a region in our solar system beyond Neptune filled with icy objects, comets, and dwarf planets like Pluto. Since this hidden planet may be so far away, the new study ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field.