Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...