Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

A meteorite, Northwest Africa 12264, is questioning the established timeline of our solar system's formation, suggesting ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

NASA's Lucy mission captured the highest resolution image yet of Donaldjohanson, the uniquely shaped asteroid.

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...