A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

it could serve as a cosmic fingerprint of the Solar System’s passage through the wave. However, finding this evidence won’t be easy. “Looking back in time is hard—no matter if you’re doing it in space ...

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are ... weird frontier of space billions of miles from the Sun just got weirder. If Altjira really is a triple system, it would be the second ...

Nothing in our universe stands still: Earth orbits the sun, the sun circles the galaxy, and even galaxies are constantly on the move. So why is everything in space in motion? It all comes down to ...

Even if we don’t feel it, our little blue planet—and everything on it—is hurtling through space at incredible ... within the Solar System. But that’s not all: we are moving within the ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Now, University of Vienna doctoral student Efrem Maconi thinks that our whole Solar System may have passed through this incredible structure. Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia ...

a period when extreme space weather tends to be less frequent. Experts from Harvard University anticipate that the Sun will remain in Solar Cycle 25 through at least 2031, before starting the ...

ranging from irregular town-size space rocks to massive rounded bodies that are potentially big enough to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

the solar system's orbit around the Milky Way's center, and the galaxy hurtling through space. The dots moving across the right side of the animation show how quickly each object travels 150 ...