Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

But this activity usually only happens relatively close to the Sun, as comets spend most of their time in the outer solar system on highly elongated orbits. A new comet, recently discovered by ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...