The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more ... billion-year-old-story—and this one’s a real doozy. After close examination of the ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

A breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial life may be on the horizon as astronomers have uncovered 85 potential planets outside our Solar System that ... project was a real team effort ...

Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought ... possibilities—could interstellar objects carry signs of alien life or materials that shaped early planetary systems?

The team's research indicates the solar system's passage through the Orion region occurred between approximately 18.2 and 11.5 million years ago, with the most likely time between 14.8 and 12.4 ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... These spacecraft also have limited life spans before falling back to Earth and burning up in our atmosphere. There is also a question ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...