New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

NASA and ESA images reveal unusual activity on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it heads for its closest Earth approach this ...

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two enormous, blazing stars swung close to the solar system. They did not touch the sun, but ...

NASA's new images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show typical comet activity, as scientists dismiss online claims that it is ...

Hubble, JWST, and ESA capture comet 3I/ATLAS blasting jets of gas and dust, offering scientists a rare chance to study ...

(CNN) — An accidental discovery might change how we think about one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system. The Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun at a ...

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Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

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Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

Scientists have discovered a comet traveling one way out of the solar system after a close encounter with Saturn. The comet, designated Comet A117uUD (A117uUD), was only discovered on June 14, 2024, ...