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 ...

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

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

This video investigates the unusual early activity of Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, a massive body traveling from the Oort ...

This week was something special, celestially speaking. First there was the spectacular Perseid shower in the bewitching ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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