The solar system looks flat because Earth, the planets, asteroids, and most local objects all move around the Sun in the same ...

Since the dawn of the solar system, rocky visitors from deep space have blazed across Earth’s skies. When will the next asteroid or interstellar object make its pass by our planet?

The Earth and the other planets rotate around the Sun in an anticlockwise direction. A year is the time it takes a planet to make one complete orbit around the Sun. The Earth goes once around the Sun ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiter planets is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimension, a team of astronomers says. What's more, the researchers are ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system. But it may not be around much longer. The otherworldly visitor to ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...