At first glance, the night sky appears still. But in reality, everything moves, our Solar System being no exception. As it ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

As the solar system moved through this dust-rich region, Earth may have received an increased influx of interstellar particles.

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...