The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned ...

The new planetarium show revealed a backwards S-shaped spiral in what's known as the Oort Cloud far beyond Pluto (American Museum of Natural History via AP) Scientists have solved one of the solar ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural History last fall, ...

Scientists have confirmed that comet 3I/Atlas is visible again following its close approach to the Sun, sparking fresh ...

If you’ve ever flown through outer space, at least while watching a documentary or a science fiction film, you’ve seen how artists turn astronomical findings into stunning visuals. But in the process ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its camera to take high-resolution images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. We have ...

On 1 July 2025, astronomers using the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, detected a faint, fast-moving object unlike anything seen before.

A team using the LOFAR radio telescope network made this claim. They combined LOFAR data with two other sensitive radio ...

Discover the powerful volcanic eruptions that have shaped worlds across our solar system. Around our solar system, violent eruptions are shaping distant worlds. Discover the explosive forces that ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their ...