New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...

New research suggests millions of unseen interstellar objects, some as big as the Statue of Liberty, could be trapped in the ...

Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of ...

An interstellar visitor may have warped the solar system billions of years ago, a new study has claimed. Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and ... orbits of the four outer planets and performed 50,000 simulations of a large object passing through the solar system to determine if ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

Learn how these advances in instrumentation could provide a better understanding of solar winds and improve space weather ...