The search for interstellar visitors has taken an unexpected turn. While previous discoveries like ‘Oumuamua and Comet ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

Alpha Centauri is the star system closest to our Solar System, and it is likely that particles from it could be making their ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Just six light-years from the solar system — in cosmic terms, our ...

Launched in 2016 by the late Stephen Hawking and tech investor Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Starshot aims to send miniature probes to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth. The plan relies ...

Over a million interstellar objects larger than 100 meters could be in the outer solar system, originating from Alpha ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the ... once every 58 Earth days — in some places, the ...

Sometimes metres and kilometres are used to measure objects and distances in space, especially if they are small or within our solar system ... our next nearest star, is approximately 4.25 ...