Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system. It has attracted ...

The European Space Agency also hoped to observe the interstellar object during its close approach to Mars using two ...

Surya is the first foundation model for heliophysics, built by a team of heliophysicists and machine learning experts. It learns from solar images, magnetic field data, and velocity measurements to ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's alien life closer to home — within the bounds of our solar system? The ...

Forget dusty textbooks and flat diagrams. We’re talking about a whole new way to see our cosmic neighborhood. Imagine having a personal planetarium right on your device, letting you zoom in on Jupiter ...

WASHINGTON — Boeing announced it has begun 3D printing the structural panels that form the backbone of satellite solar arrays, a step the aerospace giant says will cut production times in half and ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...