“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

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

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close ...

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 ...

The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...