Scientists who study comets are struggling to keep up with popular speculation that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent ...

Computer simulations have revealed a plausible explanation for a phenomenon that has puzzled astronomers: Rather than occupying orbits at regular distances from a star, giant gas planets similar to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Although the term itself immediately conjures the sort of ...

"This is really like looking at ourselves in a funhouse mirror." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Skewed planetary pathways around ...

From early chaos to cosmic symmetry, this part reveals how collisions decreased, orbits stabilized, and the solar system ...

A place warmer than the inside of a cooked tomato, the NASA discovery could redefine how we view our universe.

Astronomers have discovered 139 new minor planets orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune by searching through data from the Dark Energy Survey. The new method for spotting small worlds is expected to reveal ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — Except for the fact that we call it home, for centuries astronomers didn’t have any particular reason to believe that our solar system was anything special in the universe. But, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Despite the dangers posed to planet Earth by a comet or asteroid strike ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Astronomers recently made an important discovery when they found a rare "in-sync" solar system with six planets all moving in one big grand harmony, completely untouched by outside ...

But don't worry, it's still billions and billions of years away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Although the ground beneath our ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.