While exploring an isolated stretch of waterway using magnetic retrieval tools, participants uncovered an object that ...

Found by researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the object, labeled 2017 OF201, is one of the farthest solar system bodies observed using optical telescopes.

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...