Boffins have discovered an ‘interstellar tunnel’ connecting the Solar System to distant stars. They believe it could be part of network of tunnels running between different star-forming regions - like ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows that the region surrounding our solar system is far from empty. Instead, it ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. By Katherine Kornei If our species manages to hang on ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our solar system—only the third ever spotted, though scientists suspect many more may slip past unnoticed. The ...

A new image has revealed the clearest glimpse yet of an interstellar visitor zipping through our solar system. The Hubble Telescope and its Wide Field Camera 3 got an incredible view of the comet ...

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

NASA's Psyche orbiter looked back and snapped a photo of Earth with the moon on its way to the asteroid Psyche in 2029. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU illustration As a NASA spacecraft whizzed away ...

Astronomers have for the first time spotted a solar system beyond our own in its very earliest stages of formation. The research community has long sought such a system to help us understand the ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in ...