New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

WASHINGTON — New data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft, reveal that conditions at the edge of our solar system may be much more dynamic than previously thought. Future ...

The solar system is moving through space over three times as fast as estimated, calling into question our best model of the universe and its evolution.

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be a primitive carbonaceous object, according to a new preprint study comparing the object's ...

Analysis of the second confirmed interstellar comet to visit our solar system suggests that the alien body could be covered ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond Neptune.

Learn more about two of the earliest reports of a total solar eclipse and corona, which were recorded in China, and solve ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.

The UK's national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, was used by a large, international collaboration to study grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid to further our understanding of the ...

The United States’ solar market continues its rapid expansion, with 2024 marking another year of significant growth. Nearly 50 GW of solar capacity was installed — a 21% increase from the previous ...