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

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

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

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

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

Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit.

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 ...

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.

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

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

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in ...