Interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered just a week ago and ever since, astronomers across the world have been ...

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it could be more than 3 billion years older than the solar system.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS was the third visitor from outside our system, and its origins were being studied using an interstellar visitor model.

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

2. Activity 1: Solar System Model (30 minutes) Hands-on Activity: Students will create a model of the solar system using Styrofoam balls, paint, and string.

But Thakur warns that the Modhera model now faces a “moment of truth” as India is “increasingly flooded with solar power from ...

Are tiny black holes zipping through our solar system? Scientists hope to find out Scientists have studied black holes with the mass of a star for decades.

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

Pouring rain didn't dampen the spirits Saturday of about 100 people who gathered to witness the unveiling of a scale-model solar system at the McCarthy Observatory in New Milford. The centerpiece ...

Why do the solar system’s planets have different compositions? While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

A newly discovered object from deep space may be the oldest comet ever observed—possibly more than 7 billion years old, and ...