About 4.4 million years ago, two blue stars passed just 30–35 light years from our solar system, leaving traces in nearby gas and dust and influencing the local cosmic environment, according to ...

If humanity ever leaves the solar system, it will not be for curiosity alone. It will be because survival demands it. Proxima Centauri is the closest star system to Earth and hosts a potentially ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will offer a varied plethora of programming to start off the new year.

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When astronomers first spotted a faint, fast-moving object racing through the outer Solar System in mid-2025, few expected it ...

I/ATLAS is old news; NASA's discovery of the mysterious starless object Cloud 9 is rewriting cosmic theory. Here is what ...

A new astronomical survey has brought scientists closer to identifying nearby stars that could host Earth-like planets ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

The theory, spearheaded by astronomer Michele Bannister and her investigative team at the University of Canterbury in New ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...