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 ...

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

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

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

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

Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is thought to host between 100 and 400 billion stars, but there's no way to know the exact figure. Likewise, there's no way to know for sure how many star systems ...

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

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 ...

Nasa has highlighted that Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn will all be visible this month. Venus will rise about two ...