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

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered a stunning view of Jupiter’s ever-changing atmosphere. In this latest image, ...

Mark your calendars, place your bets, grease your palms, blink open that third eye, and ready your wishes, my babies ...

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

Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit.

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

In the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, lies Sedna, one of the most mysterious objects ever ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet. The first of these little-known companions to the Jovian giant was ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on ...