The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves inward through the solar system.

On April 20th, NASA's Lucy was in the sky, not with diamonds, but with an asteroid.

This one is for anyone who likes their trivia a little all over the place. It’s a classic pub quiz setup - nothing too serious, just 35 questions about anything and everything. One minute you’re guessing a movie quote, the next you’re trying to remember how many planets are in…

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between five and 18, plus hundreds of potentially undiscovered ones, depending on whom you ask.

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This is the moment a mysterious object that has come from interstellar space was spotted travelling through our solar system.

This week, astronomers spotted the third known interstellar visitor to our Solar System.

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late on July 1, 2025. The object’s potentially interstellar origins excited scientists across the globe, and the next morning, the European Space Agency confirmed that this object, first named A11pl3Z and…

You can see the recently identified "interstellar object" 3I/ATLAS shooting towards us through the solar system in a livestream from the Virtual Telescope Project.

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object." The cosmic interloper, officially named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third of its kind ever seen — and will shoot past Earth later this year.

Astronomer says object could be further evidence that ‘interstellar wanderers’ are common in galaxy