There are also many in a region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. The solar system also contains small objects called comets. Comets are similar to asteroids, but are made of ice, dust and ...

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun could be used to solve many mysteries, from the ...

Some are as big as the Statue of Liberty. But these aren’t asteroids from our own solar system– they may have come from an ...

New research suggests that our Solar System may already be swimming in interstellar objects that originate from the Alpha ...

A study suggests over 1 million interstellar objects are hiding in the Oort Cloud, possibly from Alpha Centauri.

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...

However, most hypotheses agree on the type of orbit the planets ... matching simulations had the planet-like object swooping through the inner solar system, the researchers created an additional ...

front of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Mars is a famously red object in our solar system, but it’s not the reddest. That honor goes to Amalthea, a tiny moon orbiting around massive gas giant planet ...