Scientists use the Webb Telescope to explore Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, searching for exoplanets. Discover how ...

WASHINGTON >> 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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Earth’s sister planet reaches greatest western elongation and dichotomy as the waxing Moon slides along the ecliptic in the ...

Son of a South African diamond dealer, Elon glided from a life of privilege all the way to being filthy rich, transported by ...

Astronomers have spotted a star acting unlike any other ever observed as it unleashes a curious combination of radio waves ...