I Atlas is a newly discovered interstellar comet traveling through our solar system at a record breaking speed of about ...

A long time ago in an arm of the galaxy about three kiloparsecs away, our Solar System began to take shape.

From Jupiter’s Great Red Spot to Neptune’s dark storms the solar system hosts tempests beyond imagination. This film explores ...

The odd nature of 3I/ATLAS led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything that ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

If we set off in a spaceship traveling at the speed of light from Earth, we would reach the Moon in just 1.3 seconds. The distance of 380,000 kilometers between the Earth and the Moon is merely a ...

A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Launch Complex-39A, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sept. 23 at ...

The solar system is 4.54 billion years old, based on rock dating. Gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) likely formed first. Ice giants (Uranus and Neptune) probably formed next. Rocky planets formed ...

A telescope in Chile recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS' glowing tail, which observations reveal has grown as the interstellar object ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

How many moons are in the solar system? Speaking of which, it's time to test your knowledge of our stellar neighborhood with our solar system quiz. If you need a hint, click the yellow button.