A little-known population of asteroids sharing Venus's orbit has intrigued scientists. Their unstable trajectories could bring them closer to our planet. These celestial bodies, called co-orbitals or ...

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

Astronomers are investigating a little-known and largely unseen group of asteroids that quietly orbit the sun alongside Venus — and there may be many more of them than we thought. "It's like ...

John Casani, who has died aged 92, was an American spaceflight engineer who led the teams that pioneered Nasa’s explorations ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also a theory that the two moons were created after a large object collided with ...

There have been a number of strange objects that have entered our solar system over the past decade, all of which have raised ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

For the first time, astronomers have successfully observed the earliest stages of planet formation around a star outside our ...

Space weather expert developing satellite constellation to predict and protect against dangerous space weather events.

A newly published study from researchers at the University of California (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has found that ...

The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and ...