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

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

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.

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

A new astronomical study suggests that Earth could one day be ejected from the solar system, not by the aging of the Sun, but ...

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

Scientists have discovered a colossal object approximately 435 miles wide in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, ...

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

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 ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...