Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the ...

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By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.

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Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

Scientists have been cataloging comet 3I/ATLAS’s journey through the Solar System since July, tracking major milestones as ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

Learn how you can say farewell to comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes by Earth on Dec. 19, 2025, and what we have learned during its ...

What can a newly discovered interstellar comet teach scientists about solar system formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the National Astronomy Meeting 2025 hopes to ...