The interstellar comet, originally called A11pl3Z and now known as 3I/Atlas, was first reported by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (Atlas) survey telescope at El Sauce Observatory in ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21. - NASA/ESA/David Jewitt (UCLA) A new image has revealed ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it ...

Recently, a group of scientists created a detailed map of this space, showing that the bubble is lopsided in both shape and ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in space that appears to guide matter and radiation along a kind of interstellar highway stretching from our solar neighborhood to distant stars.

There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for astronomers to study an object born a long time ago in a star system far, far away.

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

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 ...

"It's going to look different because it didn't come from our solar system and that's what makes it so magical." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...