The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third of its kind ever ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest-ever view of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing clues about ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

The Solar System has a total of 419 known moons around planets. If we count dwarf planets, asteroids, and other worlds, the ...

These tiny spheres were formed under extreme conditions during the early solar system's chaotic environment. The study conducted by Japan’s Nagoya University and the Italian National Institute for ...