We all picture the Solar System as a neat cosmic racetrack with planets orbiting the Sun on a flat, organized path. But have ...

The Earth's movement is primarily directed towards the star Lambda Herculis at an approximate speed of 45,000 mph (72,000 km/h). This velocity, while significant, would require approximately 5.5 ...

A planet parade featuring all seven of the other planets in the solar system will peak tonight, just over a month since the last one. If you missed January’s spectacle, make sure you tune in to this ...

Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...

A strange visitor is passing through our Solar System: an object that came from elsewhere and behaves unlike typical comets.

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Davide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies in California. Using ...

While 3I/ATLAS is getting all the attention, there are a number of other comets visible through telescopes and binoculars in ...