Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with nothing but our eyes. Yet, that 238,855-mile gap between Earth and its lunar ...

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was first detected in July, sparking a flurry of interest among scientists and in amateur astronomy circles.

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system.

The major objects in our solar system orbit along the plane of the ecliptic, plus or minus few degrees, and it turns out most ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of other planets out there in the galaxy. But we’re still teasing out clues ...

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About 4.6 billion years ago, a celestial cloud collapsed, paving the way for our solar system to form. Then, a nebula with strong gravitational pull took shape, kick-starting the birth of the sun. But ...