After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...

SpaceX’s efforts to dim its Starlink satellites will likely be effective, at least for one major observatory. But the ...

The solar system has an uninvited guest that is currently shooting toward us on a one-way trip through our cosmic ...

Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of ...

The orbit of 2023 KQ14 (in red) compared to the orbits of the other three sednoids (in white). 2023 KQ14was discovered near its perihelion at a ...

A newly published study from researchers at the University of California (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has found that ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

Earth may briefly capture as many as six moon fragments — called minimoons — at any given time before they move on to orbit ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...