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

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

Solar System Planets. Astronomy articles on the eight planets, plus the two dwarf planets, Pluto and Eris. Great pictures of everything in the solar system. Updated daily.

If our solar system seems stable, it's because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...

The White House bid to terminate NASA’s fantastical flights of exploration “across the solar system” threatens to hinder ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

This puts Earth at Emporia State’s Sunken Gardens, with the gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — further south ...

If our Solar System seems stable, it’s because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...