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

Fantasizing about interplanetary exploration is a fun mental exercise, but the harsh realities of life (or lack thereof) in ...

The Solar System. It's no longer about the eight main planets anymore. Sorry Pluto. A new planet has entered the fray.

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

Before the ribbon cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by Westfield High School Astronomy Club members Krystyna Goulette and Kaitlyn Goulette — ...

Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond ...

Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

BRITS are clueless about our solar system – with four in 10 unable to identify the biggest planet and a quarter uncertain ...

Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...