A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It was first discovered zipping near the sun this fall.

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The story begins with a puzzle in the outer solar system. Scientists noticed that small icy bodies called Kuiper Belt Objects, which ...

The story begins with a puzzle in the outer solar system. Scientists noticed that small icy bodies called Kuiper Belt Objects, which orbit far beyond Neptune, seem to be clustered together in ...

Wisconsin's Paris Solar-Battery Park, the state's first large-scale energy storage project, is now operational. The park's 12,000 lithium-ion batteries can power over 130,000 homes for up to four ...

President Donald Trump’s “ big, beautiful bill ” has the Texas solar industry and its workforce fearing for its future as the country’s leading solar trade group warns the proposed tax ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic mystery. Astronomers have cataloged a frozen minor planet called 2017 ...

The Solar System’s passage through the Radcliffe wave during the middle Miocene. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2025; 694: A167 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452061 ...

But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past By Nadia Drake 3 February 2025 Walter Myers/Science Photo Library ...

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.