The space rock, known as "2026 AJ" and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling toward our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS sparks debate over its ancient origins and 'anomalous' signals as it prepares for a final ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

An artist's illustration of the view from a Kuiper Belt object. (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)) Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is ...

Astronomers just witnessed the aftermath of something rarely seen: a fresh dust cloud from a cosmic collision around a nearby star, and then another one appearing in nearly the same spot. Twenty years ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation. These bright arcs and faint clouds reveal where tiny planet-building ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

Kuiper is an outer region of the Solar System that extends from the orbit of the planet Neptune, called Edgeworth , about 30 astronomical units from the Sun, up to 50 astronomical units from the Sun; ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

Stretching billions of miles beyond Neptune, the Kuiper Belt is a vast ring of icy worlds — a frozen frontier where ancient remnants of the early Solar System still orbit untouched. “I will not allow ...

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