The Solar System seems calm, but that tranquility is more fragile than it appears. Now imagine one day looking up and ...

A distant 'exomoon' the size of Jupiter is changing how we think about the cosmos.

Most of the comets and asteroids astronomers track were born in the solar system and are bound to loop around the Sun ...

The search for life beyond Earth has marked a new discovery — evidence of an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet beyond our Solar System with modelling suggesting it may be a water world.

One year ago, on July 1 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the Solar System. Detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the object was ...

Scientists have found that 44 Nysa, an asteroid discovered in 1857, is the first known triple-lobed (three-headed) asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Our moon is closer in size to Earth than any other moon in the solar system is to its associated planet, however it is far from the largest moon around.

Using preliminary data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, scientists have discovered over 11,000 new asteroids. The data were confirmed by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center ...

Ancient rocks collected from the far side of the moon are giving scientists a fresh look at the violent history of our solar ...

An out-of-this-world encounter has touched down at the Discovery Cube Orange County. The children’s learning museum in Santa Ana opened its new Solar System Encounter on Saturday, an immersive look at ...