When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that ...

The object seems to be travelling on a steep path - suggesting it came from the Milky Way's "thick disk", an area of ancient ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

Astronomers have discovered yet another alien visitor to the Solar System.

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...