As the Solar System drifts through the Milky Way, it occasionally encounters regions of space capable of reshaping Earth’s ...

Meteorites, captivating cosmic relics, provide a rare insight into the origins and evolution of our solar system. More than ...

Chiron, an asteroid-comet beyond Jupiter and Saturn, is currently in retrograde, appearing to move backwards in the sky until January 2026.

The confirmation of the gas giant planet would mark a milestone as the closest planet to Earth that orbits in a habitable ...

Chiron, an asteroid-comet hybrid discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal, is currently in retrograde motion until January 2026.

A senior Harvard astronomer has reignited speculation about the origins of a vast interstellar object hurtling through the ...

Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, hurtling through the solar system ...

August's full moon will coincide with the annual Perseids meteor shower, offering a rare chance to see two celestial events ...

Harvard astronomy department chair Dr. Avi Loeb has suggested that a recently discovered, Manhattan-sized interstellar object ...

New research uncovered compelling evidence — with the aid of a Big Island telescope atop Mauna Kea — that water from a comet is strikingly similar to that found in Earth’s oceans.

Chiron is a member of the Centaurs — a group of small solar system bodies that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.

Wiggins, a Utah astronomer, recently flipped open his notebook and realized he had just logged his 4,500th night studying the skies.