Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) reached the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 (L1) on January 10, 2026, approximately 1 million miles from Earth toward the Sun, according to NASA.

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space telescopes and orbiters have been documenting the rare visit. A mysterious ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...

Astronomers are still poring over data to get a better sense of 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object to ever have been observed careening through our solar system. The unusual visitor is set to ...

A massive comet traveling through the solar system is much larger than previously thought and could be a remnant of alien technology, a scientist claims in a new report. 3I/ATLAS was first identified ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The object is a comet hailing from the direction of the constellation ...

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant gas ever seen in our solar system, new observations reveal. “By surprise, we found ...

Astronomers have been fascinated after spotting an object earlier this year that came from interstellar space as is now hurtling through our inner solar system. Regardless, it’s an interesting visitor ...