Discover the latest findings on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, from rare methane detections to high-resolution Hubble images, ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a gallery of detailed snapshots of planetary systems during their "teenage years," an era long shrouded ...

And that's an influence Terra Invicta definitely wears on its space suit sleeve. It also adds an element of replayability, ...

Now, using the world's largest radio telescope project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), ...

3I/ATLAS captured the world's attention last month as the comet raced past the Earth, but some believed that it could have been an "alien spacecraft" reaching us ...

An artist's illustration of the view from a Kuiper Belt object. (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)) Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is ...

Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is more structured than long believed. Led by astrophysics doctoral student Amir Siraj, the research points to a ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation. These bright arcs and faint clouds reveal where tiny planet-building ...

Kuiper is an outer region of the Solar System that extends from the orbit of the planet Neptune, called Edgeworth , about 30 astronomical units from the Sun, up to 50 astronomical units from the Sun; ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...