Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

A mystery interstellar object spotted last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen, according to scientists.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

New observations from England’s e-MERLIN interferometer telescope array display cosmic pebbles that will one day grow into ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

A team led by Tomas Stolker has discovered a young gas giant exoplanet orbiting a 12-million-year-old star, while its ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

Exoplanet, as planets beyond our solar system are called, orbits its star so tightly that it appears to trigger flares from ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...