The outer reaches of our Solar System continue to reveal a complex dynamical environment where the interplay of gravitational forces shapes the orbits of a myriad of distant bodies. Research in this ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

The discovery of comet C/2025 V1 (Borisov) has sparked intense global interest among astronomers and space enthusiasts. Found in early November 2025, the comet’s peculiar orbit and chemical makeup ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, ...