Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Mysterious red dots spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be an entirely new kind of astronomical object ...

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Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

Explore a fascinating experiment with a device that appears to shrink objects, revealing the science behind the effect.

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ...

Several well-known meteorite discoveries are still a mystery. Avi Loeb’s interpretation of some meteorite debris possibly being of alien origin is controversial, because peer‑reviewed analyses point ...

The free gallery gives visitors the chance to hear fascinating space stories and get up close with some never-before-seen objects from space ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Researchers Mitsuyoshi Kamba, Naoki Hara, and Kiyotaka Aikawa of the University of Tokyo have successfully demonstrated ...