Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

Learn how you can say farewell to comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes by Earth on Dec. 19, 2025, and what we have learned during its ...

A disk 40 times the diameter of our solar system has been discovered by the Hubble Telescope, which is likely an image of ...

In 2025, astronomers uncovered more than 100 new moons orbiting planets in our solar system, an exciting discovery that could ...

Comet‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ 3I/ATLAS is just the third object that we know of that has been observed to pass through our solar system ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

When the solar system began to form, everything was chaos. A slew of rocky material was smashing together in a maelstrom that ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

This results in a composition that is “unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent.” “These new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” Kristina Monsch, ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...