AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

Named 3I/ATLAS, the object reportedly rich in water ice was discovered on July 1 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile, when it was about 416 million miles (670 million kilometers) from the Sun.

Astronomers now think that a collision with a nearby dwarf galaxy could cause the awakening of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, but the solar system could be blasted into interstellar ...

The find, announced Wednesday, can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be. This one is 100 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. A light-year is ...

Future earthlings may find this of interest, since the collision might knock our solar system "out of the Milky Way and into intergalactic space," said study lead author Marius Cautun of ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a rare solar system in the Milky Way that boasts six planets orbiting in perfect rhythm like a cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces ...

A nearby galaxy will slam into the Milky Way galaxy and send the solar system, where Earth resides, hurtling into space, according to a journal article in the Royal Astronomical Society.

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...