Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic field ...

A possible dwarf planet, like Pluto, has been observed in our solar system, according to a preprint published in arXiv. The area of space where this planet was found was previously thought empty.

By orbiting the Sun outside of the Solar System’s orbital plane, the spacecraft has captured the first clear images of the Sun’s south pole. According to the ESA, these observations (and other ...

The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

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All eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...

Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun But Around a 'Center of Mass,' Claim Researchers 'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched in 2020 from Cape Canaveral, captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole.