Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling at an incredible 430,000 miles per hour - faster than any human-made object ...

The mysteries of the cosmos continue to unravel, with scientists piecing together clues about the origins of our solar system. Among these revelations, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) stand ...

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New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries: the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...

Discovery: On July 2, 2025, astronomers confirmed Comet 3I/ATLAS, marking only the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected passing through our Solar System, after 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and ...

Only four such objects have been discovered, astronomers say. Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" body residing on the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research. The object – which ...