AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

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 ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions ...

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 ...