Welcome to SolarBalls, featuring fun and educational space animations that help you learn about the solar system and the ...

Surya is an "AI telescope for the Sun," and using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, can predict what our star will ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

The White House, in issuing its slashed budget plan for NASA, never provided a logical rationale for torpedoing some of the agency’s world-leading missions to survey and image the solar system.

Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according to the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. It is believed to be about ...

A comet from a solar system outside our own was first noticed on July 1 by a NASA telescope located in Rio Hurtado, Chile, as part of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS).

The new interstellar comet's official name is 3I/ATLAS. It's officially the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, and it poses no threat to Earth.

Anatomy of an interstellar object Comet 3I/ATLAS follows two other intriguing interstellar objects, called ISOs, that once passed through our solar system: ‘Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in ...

-- It's not quite in a galaxy far, far away -- but the latest planet discovered by NASA is one of the most remote ones known to exist outside of the solar system. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ...

This diagram shows the trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes through the solar system. It will make its closest approach to the Sun in October. NASA/JPL-Caltech Only two other ...

Caption: NASA’s PUNCH mission, led by SwRI, used its Narrow Field Imager to collect images of solar activity. By blocking the Sun’s bright face, NFI captures the Sun’s atmosphere in ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed. The object -- likely a comet -- was first detected in data collected between ...