Mars will stay in the spotlight through the 2030s thanks to a sample return mission. But in the 2040s, Uranus will take center stage, and Saturn’s moon Enceladus will steal the show in the 2050s.

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Biologist Eleanor Lutz's maps of space crush the idea that the solar system is just nine circles in a row. Try 18,000 circles.

Scientists tracking ‘interstellar’ object that has come to us from another solar system - Scientists are using telescopes around the world to confirm the findings. advertisement.

It is now heading out of the solar system towards the constellation of Pegasus, at a speed of 44km per second. ... Another is that the Sun is not the first star A/2017 U1 has chanced upon, ...

An interstellar object from outside of our solar system has been spotted casually passing through our neck of the universe. The comet's name is C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), and it’s only the second ...

Refining the solar system’s early history requires observations of even more Kuiper Belt objects, says Meg Schwamb, an astronomer at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Astronomers around the world are scrambling to study an object unlike anything they’ve ever seen: a chunk of rock and ice seemingly fired our way from another solar system.. Discovered on ...

Another is that the Sun is not the first star A/2017 U1 has chanced upon, ... It is now charging out of the solar system towards the constellation of Pegasus—at 44km per second.

A nd then there were two—maybe. Astronomers say they have found a second plausible candidate for a moon beyond our solar system, an exomoon, orbiting a world nearly 6,000 light-years from Earth.