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The size of the Solar System and the Universe is truly beyond our comprehension. When we think of the vastness of space, we ...

Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness across the surface of our planet – at the height of the August tourist ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but. The object’s trajectory revealed it to be a much rarer visitor than first ...

We know the sun is massive; it accounts for 99.8 percent of all the mass in our solar system. To put things on a human scale, if the sun were the size of a basketball, the Earth would be no larger ...

Get ready to feel small: The sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. Here are more colossal facts about our star.