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

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

As the International Space Station whizzed over Mexico and the United States — before floodwaters catastrophically rose in ...

The universe is unimaginably vast, even within our own Solar System, the distances between planets are staggering. Light, the ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...

Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...

With advancement of space tech, photographs clicked from space over the years illuminate distant worlds in stunning detail.

In 1989, Voyager 2 – fresh from taking the first-ever close-up observations and photos of ice giant Neptune – shut off its wide and narrow-angle cameras as NASA engineers wanted to use that ...

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to study the Solar System's edge, and the interstellar medium between the stars. One by one, they both hit the "wall of fire" at the boundaries of our ...

For over 47 years, NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have been traveling through the vast reaches of space, sending back groundbreaking data about our solar system and beyond. These two iconic ...

Beyond the heliopause is interstellar space, which Voyager 1 entered in 2012 and Voyager 2 reached in 2018. It’s a very different environment from the one inside our heliosphere—quieter but ...