How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system ...

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...

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 ...

An interstellar object has been spotted zipping through our solar system, and amateur and professional astronomers around the world are now racing to train their telescopes in its direction, allowing ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have peered into a mysterious blue haze cloaking the surface of Pluto — and discovered that it’s controlling the dwarf planet’s climate and atmosphere.