Astronomers have discovered a new object that originated outside of our Solar System — only the third to be found.

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

NASA also points out that July and August is an excellent chance to view the constellation Aquila, also known as the eagle as ...

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...