There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

WAYNESVILLE, Ohio (WKRC) — A 14-year-old Eagle Scout with a passion for astronomy has completed a remarkable project at Hisey ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

Researchers just got a step closer to understanding the origins of our solar system, with the discovery of an object orbiting ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...