Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Mercury’s risk of orbital disruption rises by 50–80%. There’s a 0.3% chance Mars could be lost through collision or ejection, ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

But researchers have just demonstrated that once you are far away from the planets of the Solar System, there might be a ...

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.