So by now you must be aware that something ominous is approaching our solar system on a clear path towards Earth at an astronomical speed and in a way that is "not natural" and puzzling the scientific ...

Since its discovery, astronomers have been frantically trying to gather as much information as they can about the newest interstellar interloper dubbed 3I/ATLAS. It's been challenging, but they've ...

Imagine living inside a giant invisible shield. Our Solar System is wrapped in such a shield, a bubble created by the Sun. Known as the heliosphere, it extends billions of kilometres into space and ...

A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted. It's the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, and it was detected on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS ...

The heliosphere was first theorised by multiple scientists investigating the concept of cosmic rays and the solar wind in the ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. In a stunning picture ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system. They detected in an alien planet's atmosphere the ...

Astronomers have discovered a new world circling the outer edges of our solar system. Researchers using the Subaru Telescope, located in Hawaii, spotted a small, distant object called 2023 KQ14 far ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.