Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Solar System Animation. The planets in our solar system are all different, ... with Uranus spinning more obviously in the opposite direction and Venus moving so slowly it looks as though it is ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

There's a new interstellar comet in the neighborhood! Known as 3I/ATLAS, this comet poses no threat to Earth – but it does ...

The first interstellar object spotted in our Solar System was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017 by the ...

This animation shows the observations of comet 3I/ATLAS when it was discovered on July 1, 2025. The NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Chile first reported that the comet originated from ...

O'Donoghue's best animations show how the planets spin, where the solar system's true center lies, and how slow light speed can be. James O'Donoghue went viral for the first time in December 2018.

I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected. You can stream the object live today, or maybe see it from your ...

Case in point, a new solar system discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) has six planets, and they’re all moving ...

This year, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit Earth. In those 60 years, weve gone much further, reaching new planets and even the edge of the ...

A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.