Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

Earth Has A 1-In-100,000 Chance Of Being Ejected From The Solar System Due To A Passing Star A new simulation expands on the possible scenarios of how the Solar System will end.

Science Space Solar System Moons Jupiter was once twice as large as it is today Examining the gas giant's primordial stages is key to understanding our solar system's evolution. By Andrew Paul ...

For years, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in our solar system (after giving Pluto the old heave-ho and demoting it to a dwarf planet) and now researchers say they’ve found a ...

Some 4.5 billion years ago, a monster asteroid around 60 miles wide formed in the outer reaches of the Solar System —beyond the orbit of Jupiter.

A piece of the dawn: Asteroid sample science hints at an ancient salt lake and conditions in the early solar system Michelle Thompson, a Purdue planetary scientist and expert in space weathering, was ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Looking at the organization of our own Solar System. For instance, what we have learned about planet formation suggests that we should have sent a lot of our own comets on their own interstellar ...

While we have a precise (and probably accurate) age for the solar system, we do not have precise ages for each planet.