"This is really like looking at ourselves in a funhouse mirror." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Skewed planetary pathways around ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling at an incredible 430,000 miles per hour - faster than any human-made object ...

Meet the surprising, oddball worlds moving around our solar system. From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of ...

A new paper examining and simulating the formation of wide-orbit planets has put the chances of our own Solar System harboring the hypothetical "Planet Nine" at up to 40 percent. In 2016, two ...

Comet ISON, which astronomers think originated outside the solar system, brightens in this five-minute exposure, taken in 2013. Credit: NASA / MSFC / Aaron Kingery A Mashable series about the curious ...

An artist's depiction of a hot Jupiter planet orbiting its star. Skewed planetary pathways around a star aren't so strange after all. But fresh research led by Yale University shows that even ...