The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

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The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling at an incredible 430,000 miles per hour - faster than any human-made object ...

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon, Mercury endures some of the most ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of ...

Scientists have long believed that comets and a type of very primitive meteorite called carbonaceous chondrites were the sources of early Earth’s volatile elements — which include hydrogen, nitrogen, ...

Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...

From an early age, we are taught to understand that the planets of our solar system change in position while orbiting a central star, the sun. But does the sun itself move within the solar system?

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...