There could be a 90 percent chance that in the next decade, astronomers will spot a deep space explosion that confirms ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

Over the past decade, the Mayan calendar has been subjected to close examination and intense debate. Could an ancient ...

Later, I researched and learned that they were referring to carbonaceous chondrites, which are those meteorites that, when ...

SPHEREx to create a three-dimensional map of the cosmos It seeks insight into phenomenon called cosmic inflation Will search for water bound to dust in interstellar clouds March 11 (Reuters) - A NASA ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient origins and glimpsing the destiny that awaits it in the distant future ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.