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

This stunning photo shows every single planet in the solar system at the same time during a rare alignment that won’t happen again until 2040. Taken from a field in Somerset, the groundbreaking ...

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?

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 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 ...

There are many theories about how dynamics in the early solar system led to the cosmic neighbourhood we now inhabit, but beyond computer simulations, direct evidence to support them is hard to come by ...

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 ...