Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an ...

Located around 111 light years away from our solar system, and thus being quite close in space terms, is the star TWA 7. Also ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around ...

Scientists have recently unveiled an extraordinary discovery: a massive ‘interstellar tunnel’ that appears to link our Solar ...

Riding alongside IMAP, NOAA's SWFO-L1 will serve as a dedicated solar alert system, monitoring space weather and energetic ...

Unlike typical comets, ‘Oumuamua lacks rock or carbon-rich material. It is also much more elongated than other comets. It ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped images of a recently discovered interstellar visitor hurtling through our solar system. Traveling at 130,000 mph, 3I/ATLAS is the fastest comet ever observed ...

categories:Science, Solar System | tags:Because inferior planets orbit closer to the Sun than Earth, they never stray far from their parent star. Innermost Mercury never appears farther than 28 ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years ...

Kepler data has identified a star with a seven-planet system structured similarly to the sun’s clutch of planets.

But, if we can figure out what's going to happen to our solar system, that will tell us something about how the Universe might evolve, on timescales far longer than its current age of 13.8 billion ...

The award-winning PBS science series, NOVA, a production of GBH, will premiere an epic new five-part series, SOLAR SYSTEM, Wednesdays, beginning October 2 at 9pm ET/8C on PBS.