3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

Scientists have been cataloging comet 3I/ATLAS’s journey through the Solar System since July, tracking major milestones as the rare interstellar visitor moves closer to Earth.

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in the gas around the Sun that behaves like a tunnel carved through ...

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, known for its massive size, strong gravity, powerful storms and many moons ...

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A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

Our solar system today has eight planets. Till a few years back, Pluto was our ninth planet, until it was demoted to a dwarf planet. But some studies suggest that the ancient solar system once still ...