D oes Thanksgiving with the extended family make you feel like an extraterrestrial landing at the dinner table? You’re not ...

Some of these flecks are even older than the Solar System itself—the presolar grains in the Murchison meteorite, for instance, go back 7 billion years.

Observations of the young HOPS-315 star system show an environment analogous to what our own nascent Solar System would have looked like billions of years ago. The star is surrounded by a ...

The risk of collisions, passing stars or supernovas coming too close to the solar system and then tearing apart its celestial bodies and space rocks will also be magnified.

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

For example, the first mile-sized planetesimals in our solar system–which grew to become celestial bodies like Earth or Jupiter’s core–formed right after the condensation of these same ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) ...

A Manhattan-sized interstellar comet was spotted blazing through our solar system — marking only the third time a mysterious object from beyond our cosmic neighborhood has been observed.

Something unusual is moving through our solar system —a fast, faint object now confirmed to have originated beyond it.

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on ...

Four more games were added to Apple Arcade today, including a new Angry Birds title. Angry Birds Bounce is a new take on the iconic Angry Birds ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.