A renowned physicist believes he's cracked the mystery of where a giant unidentified object hurtling through our solar system came from. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb and student researcher Shokhruz ...

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling at an incredible 430,000 miles per hour - faster than any human-made object ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts ...

The new planetarium show revealed a backwards S-shaped spiral in what's known as the Oort Cloud far beyond Pluto (American Museum of Natural History via AP) Scientists have solved one of the solar ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals astonishingly rich organic chemistry, confirming that life's building blocks are ...

Folks, it’s official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from interstellar space. Yesterday, the intriguing stranger was named A11pl3Z. Now, it’s ...

Our solar system’s latest and only third known interstellar visitor is becoming more fascinating by the week. Spotted in early July, the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, is widely believed to be a comet. It’s ...

Learn more about two of the earliest reports of a total solar eclipse and corona, which were recorded in China, and solve ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) The interstellar comet, originally called A11pl3Z and now ...

To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the ...

Scientists have solved one of the solar system's enduring mysteries with the help of an unexpected source: a planetarium show. Last year, experts at the American Museum of Natural History were ...