Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Comets are icy bodies that orbit the Sun, often referred to as ‘dirty snowballs’. Learn about their composition, formation, ...

Lovejoy likely hails from the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy objects thought to surround the solar system. It’s one of the roughly 4,000 known comets among the billions estimated to exist in ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object to enter our solar system, sparking debate with its strange shape, speed, and ...

A new member of the solar system has been detected, the second-largest of its kind, suggesting there may be more like it ...

A passing star has been discovered that could cause chaos in the Solar System, sending Earth flying out of orbit.

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

Meteors from the Eta Aquariids, known for their speed and created from space debris originating from Halley's comet, will zoom across the sky as the shower peaks.