The Solar System is far stranger than most people imagine, from Olympus Mons and Uranus rolling on its side to Jupiter’s ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

The solar system could be destroyed much sooner than we thought, scientists say - Outer planets could be thrown out into the ...

Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

It has about a 1 percent chance of leaving the Solar System within the next 5 billion years and a fraction of the models show ...

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only two confirmed ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...

Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...

This video depicts a simulation of millions of small solar system objects that astronomers said the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will discover in the next 10 years. Video via Jake Andrew Kurlander/ ...

It's a first in scientific history. The post Harvard Scientists Detect Radio Signal Coming Directly From Planet Outside the ...

Astronomers say they have have detected a radio emission from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth, ...