When a hunk of ice from another star system hurtles through our cosmic neighborhood, astronomers pay attention. When that ...

A newly identifiedplanetary system is forcing astronomers to rethink how worlds form and evolve, as a rocky planet appears ...

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Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. artist's impression of colliding asteroids For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...