Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

A new planetarium show at the American Museum of Natural History depicts a spiral in the Oort Cloud, a region far beyond Pluto that’s full of icy comets. (American Museum of Natural History) NEW YORK ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will be closest to the Sun on October 29 and will be observable through telescopes. Here is how you can track ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural History last fall, ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

Only four such objects have been discovered, astronomers say. Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" body residing on the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research. The object – which ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show. At the American Museum of Natural History last fall, experts were hard at work preparing ...

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