Newly named Comet 3I/ATLAS is now the third interstellar object we've spotted travelling through our solar system! Previous discoveries. The first interstellar object discovered, ...

The supposed interstellar fireball detected over the Pacific Ocean in 2014 probably came from within our solar system, according to new statistical modeling of the meteor and others similar to it.

Close stellar encounters may also reinforce these effects. Within a 6-parsec radius of the Solar System, 131 stars and brown dwarfs reside. Six of these are predicted to make close approaches to ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk.But in reality, our Solar ...

Our solar system resides within a bubble of superheated gas known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Scientists have long pondered its origins. To better study this region, the Max Planck Institute ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist. Now, scientists have found a total of 14 of them.

Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and lightning 10 times stronger than here on Earth.