We continue our discussion of surveying for habitable exoplanets by touring our possible option for interstellar probes, dumb and smart, flyby and protracted orbital. Air India says crashed ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Interstellar comets offer the tantalizing opportunity for us to touch something truly otherworldly,” says the European Space ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Far past the familiar boundaries of our solar system, NASA's intrepid Voyager spacecraft are sending back mind-boggling data, revealing a fascinating and intense frontier. While not a literal 'wall of ...

Elio is with his aunt inside of a space center near the movie's beginning, and he sneaks away to a room housing a replica of ...

To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

NASA telescopes in Chile have discovered a comet from interstellar space, making its closest approach in October.