Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...

Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not loop back around the sun. That's why astronomers around the world are using ...

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of ...

Solar System is wrapped in such a shield, a bubble created by the Sun. Known as the heliosphere, it extends billions of kilometres into space and protects life on Earth.

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleagues suggest the possibility interstellar space object 3I/ATLAS is generating "its ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows ...

The Solar System has a total of 419 known moons around planets. If we count dwarf planets, asteroids, and other worlds, the count more than doubles. The "known" in known moon is the important part, ...

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But this definition of the solar system is considered to be far too simple by some astronomers, such as Caltech's Mike Brown. "It's not really true," Brown told Live Science in an email.

How many moons could there be in total? There are more than 900 known natural satellites in the solar system. However, as we have seen, this number is likely to grow significantly in the future.

Think you know the solar system? These 30 surprising facts will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew.