NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

NASA’s New Horizons successfully used stellar parallax from deep space to pinpoint its location, pioneering a new method of ...

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

For millennia, the way we found our way home has been using the stars. The tech we have sent towards those stars also uses ...

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

A newly discovered object, dubbed A11pl3Z, appears to be moving too fast and straight to have originated in the solar system.

A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...

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

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

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, or the space between stars, in 2012, and Voyager 2 did the same in 2018. The probes took different trajectories.