The April 2024 total solar eclipse caused some birds to believe that a new day had arrived, prompting them to burst into song, a new study found.

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has been something of a mystery ever since it graced our solar system. From all outward ...

The 9th Interstellar Symposium at UT Austin will bring together scientists, creatives, and industry experts to discuss the ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

The enigma of the intruder about the same size as Manhattan Island is making astronomers rethink what they know about cosmic ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

The comets can be seen from the Northern Hemisphere as their orbits take them through our cosmic backyard. Two such ...

The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is absolutely blasting out water at a staggering rate, astronomers found.

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS which is racing through our solar system, has once again baffled scientists with its ...

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...