Comet C/2025 R2 SWAN, a rare visitor from the outer solar system with an orbital period exceeding 20,000 years, has been observed and photographed over Oman by the Oman Society of Astronomy and Space ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Having made its closest approach to the sun on Wednesday October 29, comet 3I/ATLAS will soon be visible from Earth ...

The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...