A powerful and unusually persistent radio burst from the Sun has captured the attention of scientists after lasting an astonishing 19 days, smashing the previous known record for this type of solar ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed. The object -- likely a comet -- was first detected in data collected between by ...

A comet tearing through the inner solar system at roughly 58 kilometers per second formed between 10 and 12 billion years ago ...

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A ninth planet may be tugging at the outer edges of our solar system. Astronomers were studying distant icy objects beyond Neptune. In 2014, astronomers found six Kuiper Belt objects clustered in ...