Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the sky ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

So if you were writing a science textbook, you'd want to include an illustration of the Earth-sun-moon system, right? But guess what, you can't. The distances and differences in size make it ...

02/15/2023 By Brooke Coupal. Ericka Boudreau ’20, ’22 is on her way to becoming a triple River Hawk. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UMass Lowell in environmental science with a ...

The sun protects our solar system's planets from the harsh environment of interstellar space; 2 million years ago, a dense cloud of matter could have curtailed this shielding.

Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 billion years old, new research suggests.

Earth's circumference is 24,901 miles (40,075 km), making it the largest rocky planet in the solar system. Our planet orbits 93 million miles (150,000 km) away from the sun.

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.