A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

But in reality, our Solar System’s disk is far from flat ... the object was and where it went are questions still hanging in space. Was this a rogue planet that escaped into the void, or ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Asteroids are more than just space rocks—they come in many shapes, sizes, and compositions, with some even defying scientific ...