In the distant reaches of the solar system are many icy objects that resemble snowmen. Now, a new study reveals the simple ...

Telescopes around the world are now tracking a new visitor to our celestial neighborhood. Streaking through at a speed and trajectory that not even the Sun's immense gravity can capture, we will only ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An object has been discovered orbiting the sun far beyond ...

It was "full-on erupting" during its flyby of the Sun. The post 3I/ATLAS Spraying Material as It Exits the Solar System appeared first on Futurism.

The tallest cliff in the solar system is so extreme that even imagining standing on its edge is enough to make your stomach drop. On a tiny, battered moon circling Uranus, a single fault scarp called ...

In spring 2002, Chelsey Bryant Krug flew to Colorado in search of a job. She had just enrolled as a graduate student in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. She found ...

Our solar system’s latest and only third known interstellar visitor is becoming more fascinating by the week. Spotted in early July, the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, is widely believed to be a comet. It’s ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.