We take a look at the current best predictions for what the solar system will look like throughout the rest of the Sun's life ...

Jane Huang, an assistant professor of astronomy, grew up in Chicago, but has no strong feelings on whether New York or her ...

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density 'super-puff' planets has at least one more planet, according to new observations.

If planet X exists, it is likely a gas giant similar to Neptune. NASA/Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC), CC BY Our solar system is a particularly crowded place. Millions of objects move within it, whether they ...

Dark matter does pervade the solar system like an invisible fog. We just lack the means to measure its effects on solar ...

Comet 67P's water has the same molecular signature as Earth's oceans, suggesting it may have contributed to Earth's water ...

If you were to ask the astronomer Johannes Kepler, then yes, they were. He wrote in 1619 that, based on some of his calculations, every planet in our solar system had its own unique voice that all ...

Study simulates a super-Earth between Mars and Jupiter Findings show destabilised orbits and climates for inner planets Earth's habitability could have been severely impacted ...

The planet’s north polar region now appears very bright and large, as the North Polar Hood (cloud cover) clears and reveals ...

“A wave of comet and asteroid collisions with the solar system’s inner planets 4 billion years ago would have made this ...

The data used for the simulations was gathered by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Launched in 2010 on an Atlas V ...