Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

In the early hours of December 19, 2025, a rare interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) might be the brightest comet of the year, scientists predict.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But now a fourth and much larger object has been spotted entering the solar system, and the scientific community is rushing to ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

The interstellar comet, originally called A11pl3Z and now known as 3I/Atlas, was first reported by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (Atlas) survey telescope at El Sauce Observatory in ...

Eight planets, hundreds of moons, hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and billions of comets orbiting our Sun make up our ...

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We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

In March 2025, the International Astronomical Union recognised the discovery of a whopping 128 more moons orbiting around ...

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 ...