Your odds of winning the lottery are still 100,000 times larger than the probability of either Voyager hitting a comet.

The Oort Cloud is a vast, icy shell that surrounds the solar system, marking the farthest reaches of our cosmic neighborhood. Though we have yet to directly observe its objects, the Oort Cloud is ...

David Jewitt at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues studied images from ground-based and ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 has surpassed its initial objectives and now journeys through interstellar space. It crossed into ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has detected an unexpected hot and energetic \"firewall\" just beyond the heliopause, ...

This spacecraft was the farthest human-made object from Earth, and it will reach the Oort Cloud, a hypothetical region in ...

Perseid meteor shower peaks August 12–13 with up to 100 meteors/hour; watch live or catch fireballs before dawn.

Learn about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a high-velocity visitor from another star system. Learn how NASA is tracking its ...

A Harvard astronomer is suggesting that an interstellar object nearing Earth could be an engineered object — rather than a ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and ...

Aside from a compelling narrative, Destiny 2's latest expansion is a mishmash of unimpressive visuals and underwhelming ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured its most detailed image yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The rare comet is ...