Voyager 1 has been exploring the cosmos for decades, but when it reached the edge of the solar system, it found something ...

While Saturn 's magnificent rings, spanning 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometres), are a familiar celestial marvel, scientists ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Uranus and Neptune are the two furthest planets in the Solar System and have been visited only once by human spacecraft – by Voyager 2 over 30 years ago – so there is a lot about them that we do not ...

Folks, it’s official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from interstellar space. Yesterday, the intriguing stranger was named A11pl3Z. Now, it’s ...

The European Space Agency also hoped to observe the interstellar object during its close approach to Mars using two ...

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A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...