Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

Rubin Observatory in Chile will discover 2.85 million previously undetected objects in the solar system in its first year of ...

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system.

It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on the same scale of 1 to 10 billion. That is, the real ...

Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought. According to a new study, more than 1 million interstellar objects could ... say these aren’t just random space rocks, either.

These findings actually bolster the streaming instability model ... that objects gently accumulated to form Arrokoth at minimal collision speeds in a specific region of the solar nebula undergoing ...

Primitive ices and gas from the earliest days of the solar system ... mathematical model, that you can keep these primitive ices locked deep within the interiors of these objects for really ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system ... of objects, which is all they need to leave the gravitational pull of the sun," said Gregg. "For this model, we assumed Alpha ...

These ancient minor planets are called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), and they date back to the formation of the solar system. Researchers participating in the Discovering the Surface ...

The solar system is enveloped by a huge bubble called the heliosphere. Made of charged particles generated by the sun, the heliosphere shields planets and other objects from high-speed ...

ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System (6-8) The solar system consists of the sun and a collection of objects, including planets, their moons, and asteroids that are held in orbit around the sun by its ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...