Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...