To transport our planet across the universe, we would need to bring the whole solar system to sustain life on Earth – on this ...

Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought.

The Stardust team teased the specks from the gel, stuck them in their electron microscopes, and stared back at the birth of our solar system. They were stunned by what they saw. Scientists have ...

The Webb telescope, the most powerful space observatory ever built, used a coronagraph to capture the faint light from this ...

'Oumuamua is now out beyond the orbit of Neptune, passing through the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies near the outer edge ...

Astronomers believe they have discovered a fast-moving comet that Saturn sent careening out of our solar system at a speed far eclipsing humanity's fastest fighter jets. Though the planetary ...

NASA have discovered massive bursts of plasma emitted from the sun were strong enough to shift its magnetic field.

So what would happen if one entered our solar system? It depends on a lot of factors ... a postdoctoral researcher at the Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center in France, told Live Science.

How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know ... its collapse probably lived about 3 kpcs closer to the galactic center. Based on the distribution of mass in and around our local ...

Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...

On this scale a circle two and a half miles in diameter would include all the members of our solar system; but on this scale the nearest fixed stars would be nearly as distant as is our moon.