On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

This happens because the planets in our solar system essentially orbit the sun along the same line across a flat, disc-shaped plane in the sky known as the ecliptic, according to cosmic news site ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Will there ever be a time when all the planets of our solar system line up in a row, one behind the other, as seen from Earth? (continued) Richard Swifte Darmstadt, Germany.

We had our frost line. We knew how solar systems formed. "It was a really beautiful theory," he says. "And, clearly, thoroughly wrong." It is something I find deeply weird.

If you have good, clear, dark skies at the end of March, you’ll be able to look up at night and see something pretty amazing: five planets all in a line.. From March 25-30, with peak visibility ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Long before quantum physics explained the 21 cm line*, ... Our Solar System is full of mysteries, but if the inner planets are a puzzle, ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.