While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

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Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system. First named A11pl3Z and now designated as ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days of stealth may be numbered. Two teams of researchers propose methods to search for ...

The outer solar system is a vast and mysterious place that could be harboring hidden objects we know almost nothing about — from the elusive Planet Nine and baby black holes to interstellar visitors ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shared the images of comet 3I/ATLAS. It's possibly as big as Manhattan, likely older than our own solar system and it's traveling through space at speeds of up to ...