In space terms, our solar system is like a calm pond, but even the smallest pebble can cause ripples. According to the study in Icarus, a passing star within 10,000 astronomical units (AU) could ...

The researchers utilized thousands of computer simulations to reveal possible ways how our solar system could evolve in billions of years. Scientists do say that if a star with a mass equal to our Sun ...

As Monash's partnership with Woodside comes up for renewal, the university is facing pressure from students and staff to ditch the company for good.

A powerful solar outburst on May 31 caused a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning. Scientists used real-time space-based tools to track the CME, underscoring the risks it poses to satellites and ...

A violent solar eruption on May 31 launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurtling toward Earth, triggering a rare G4-level geomagnetic storm alert. Captured in real-time by U.S. Naval Research ...

Rubin Observatory will release its first public images of the solar system during the “First Look” event on June 23. The observatory expects to begin full science operations later in the year. With ...

NASA has just announced a groundbreaking discovery: 10 new Earth-like planets beyond our solar system that could potentially support life. Using cutting-edge telescopes and advanced detection ...

Earth has a 1-in-500 (0.2 percent) chance that it will be lost due to either being ejected from the Solar System or colliding with another world.

Solar System – Jupiter. It is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. Its a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun. Elements of this image furnished by NASA ...

Heavenly questions China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission Tianwen-2 will first return samples from an asteroid, then explore a mysterious comet-like object.

Computer simulations of the solar system’s future reveal a new risk facing us all: The gravitational tug of a passing star could either cause another planet to smack into Earth or else fling our ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.