All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

Genesis data is now producing high impact science in cosmochemistry, solar physics, coronal mass ejections, and space ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

If you’re looking for a way to fill an evening this month with something wonderous, look no further than the night sky above ...

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, because they all originally formed from the same disc of debris around the sun. The line the sun traces across the ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...