Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat ...

A renowned physicist believes he's cracked the mystery of where a giant unidentified object hurtling through our solar system ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

The solar system has an uninvited guest that is currently shooting toward us on a one-way trip through our cosmic ...

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

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

The comet was identified as interstellar due to its highly eccentric hyperbolic orbit, which is unlike the elliptical orbits of native Solar System objects.

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...

The comet is described as a spinning mass of ice, rock and dust, hurtling through space on a path that thankfully poses no threat to Earth. At its closest point, 3 Eye Atlas will remain approximately ...