NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...
Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...
Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...
After crossing the boundary of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft began detecting changes scientists had ...
Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...
Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...
Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) might be the brightest comet of the year, scientists predict.
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The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for astronomers to study an object born a long time ago in a star system far, far away.
You’ve probably heard of wormholes from Thor, Interstellar, Star Trek, or if you’re really old school, Albert Einstein. In ...