Scientists may add a new dwarf planet to the official roster of our solar system. The distant, icy body, provisionally dubbed ...

Learn how the European Space Agency’s spacecraft captured a completely new view of the Sun, thanks to its novel tilted orbit. The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Solar Orbiter is out of alignment with ...

This video shows our solar system moving through the galaxy. The view is from a hypothetical vantage of a typical interstellar object in the sun’s vicinity. Illustration via Tony Dunn at Orbit ...

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.

3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the galaxy. By Kenneth Chang For only the third time, astronomers have found ...

This week, astronomers spotted the third known interstellar visitor to our Solar System. First detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on July 1, the cosmic interloper ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...