NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

A passing star has been discovered that could cause chaos in the Solar System, sending Earth flying out of orbit.

A paper by astronomers Nathan Kaib and Sean Raymond released earlier this month used new simulations to determine how likely ...

Scientists have painted a scary scenario for the solar system, where one passerby might trigger the death of every planet, ...

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

Mercury, for instance, is already the wild card of the inner planets. Its orbit grows more eccentric over time, increasing ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

New research suggests that our entire solar system is vulnerable to being thrown into chaos by a distant star.

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty. As we travel around the ...