Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

This animation shows the observations of comet 3I/ATLAS when it was discovered on July 1, 2025. The NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Chile first reported that the comet originated from ...

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

Now this is fun. Kurzgesagt made a fantastic animation video detailing our solar system. Perfect for anyone who’s space curious (and that should be everyone), perfect to sit down and show your ...

They mark the first close-up views of the largest moon in the solar system since the Galileo orbiter last flew past in 2000. The time-lapse animation lasts three-and-a-half minutes, ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.