The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Neptune stands stationary against the background stars of Pisces the Fish at 11 A.M. EDT. The solar system's most distant ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Comet or asteroid heading for the Sun is only the third time an interstellar object has been spotted inside our group of ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that ...

I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected. You can stream the object live today, or maybe see it from your ...

The Voyager probes we sent from Earth back in the 70s found an incredible 'wall of fire' at the edge of our solar system ...

A recent study indicates a small chance that Earth could be ejected from our solar system due to passing stars. Simulations ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...