The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

The outlook is promising for future long-term monitoring of planets across multiple wavelengths. Infrared imaging data from ...

Astronomers are making a surprising breakthrough in the study of Venus, as new simulations suggest there may be a hidden ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...

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

A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

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

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

A recent study indicates a small chance that Earth could be ejected from our solar system due to passing stars. Simulations ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...