The strange outer-space object 'Oumuamua flew through our solar system in 2017 and captured our imaginations. Meaning "scout" or "messenger" in Hawaiian, 'Oumuamua was the first known visitor from ...

The Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF, this is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). This means that it orbits the Sun further away than Neptune.

NASA has quietly designed, built, and successfully launched an entirely new kind of spacecraft, and most people have not heard about it. On December 18th, 2025, NASA and The Aerospace Corporation ...

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

For the next two months, the moon will have a temporary companion in its orbit around the Earth. A small asteroid, called a “mini-moon,” will partially circle the Earth before returning on an ...

How did Jupiter’s formation shape the solar system, and specifically Earth’s orbit? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...

A network of powerful ground-based telescopes captured rare starspot-crossing events on TOI-3884b, revealing cooler patches on the star’s surface and rapid changes tied to its rotation. By combining ...

LONDON, Sept. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon NORSS – Raytheon's UK-based space domain awareness specialist – announced today the international deployment of its Low Earth Orbit Optical Camera ...