Since the formation of the Solar System, the orbits of the planets have evolved and changed over time. While one of the most prominent ideas in the last few decades is planetary migrations and the ...

Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to ...

It's a relic of the way the Solar System formed; when the Sun was a spinning baby star some 4.6 billion years ago, material from the cloud around it swirled around it and fed its growth.

The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system objects called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). 2020 VN40 is the first object discovered that orbits the sun once for ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have discovered a strange new body in a weird orbit at the edge of the solar system, which could be bad news for Planet Nine theories.

The massive object flew through the solar system at a velocity of about 6km per second, coming within 20 astronomical units of the sun and shaping the orbits of the gas giant planets into what we ...