The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

3I/ATLAS appears to be much bigger than the two interstellar objects ... Neptunian objects—minor planets that orbit the Sun beyond Neptune’s orbit—or tiny, icy celestial bodies located between Jupiter ...

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

The solar system’s largest planet return to the sky on Wednesday, July 9, beginning Jupiter’s slow rise to prominence.

Scientists have detected planet-forming pebbles around two young stars, providing insight into the birth of solar systems ...

NASA has announced an exciting discovery hurtling through our solar system: an interstellar object. It’s a comet, but beyond ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from ...

Discover why Earth's farthest distance from the sun coincides with summer heat, then grab your binoculars for a week of ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...