"We know from our own solar system that giant planets ... including asteroids and other near-Earth objects. Western scientist Robert Weryk discovered the first-ever confirmed interstellar object ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss the opportunity." In 2017, scientists spotted our solar system's first ...

And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded with visitors from the star system, which is about 4.25 light years away. These objects range from ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will ... So exactly how many solar system moons have we found? The answer, it turns out, depends on your definition ...

Astronomers have discovered more than 300 exoplanetary ... in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists ...

Interstellar objects are among the last unexplored classes of solar system objects, holding tantalizing information about ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system ... neighboring cosmic objects, such as gas ...