An international research team led by the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has discovered two new planets performing ...

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

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

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 ...

I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected. You can stream the object live today, or maybe see it from your ...

Mount Everest may be the tallest mountain on Earth, but it's nothing compared to the towering giants scattered across our ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Comet or asteroid heading for the Sun is only the third time an interstellar object has been spotted inside our group of ...

Astronomers spotted an object speeding at 133,200 miles per hour (about 214,364 kilometres per hour), which is too fast to be ...

Astronomers have discovered a new interstellar comet passing through our solar system, marking the third interstellar object ...

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

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