Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this ...

These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our ...

Outer space is a fascinating place to explore, and mankind has pushed the limits of technology to learn more about our solar ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and ...

A study has suggested that this motion of our star through the galaxy potentially takes us through regions of space that ...

For decades, astronomers believed our Solar System was a typical model of how planetary systems should form. But recent discoveries are reshaping that view, revealing that our cosmic neighborhood may ...

Thanks to new measurements of very old meteorites, the current consensus on the Solar System's age is 4.5684 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 240,000 years—a tiny fraction of a percent.

Thanks to new measurements of very old meteorites, the current consensus on the Solar System's age is 4.5684 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 240,000 years—a tiny fraction of a percent.

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...