A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

The Solar System is far larger than the neat diagrams found in textbooks. Beyond the planets lies a vast region of icy debris ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was full-on erupting into space in December 2025, after its close flyby of the sun, causing it to ...

The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the inner solar system.

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

On February 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! [‘On This Day in Space’ ...

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For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

Initial analysis suggested the nucleus was approximately 13.7 kilometers wide (roughly city-sized); however, researchers ...