It may be a 20km wide comet or a cosmic snowball, but it does not pose a threat to Earth. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Astronomers have discovered a new object that originated outside of our Solar System — only the third to be found.

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

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

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

An object that appears to be from beyond our Solar System has been spotted hurtling towards the Sun, which if confirmed would ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...