The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...
Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
Is Comet 3I/ATLAS the Oldest Comet Visitor from the Solar System? Learn about Comet 3I/ATLAS, its origins, discovery, why it ...
The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...
Our solar system is a passenger on a galactic rollercoaster. Part 2 reveals how the Sun, carrying Earth, orbits the Milky Way's core at 491,000 mph, completing a circuit every 230 million years. We ...
Officially designated 3I/Atlas after its discovery this summer, the comet will make its closest approach to Earth this Friday ...
Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...
New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...
Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...
When we think of Earth and its neighboring planets orbiting around our common host star, we picture the center of the Solar System as smack in the middle of the Sun. However, that's not entirely true, ...
Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...