The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

Planetary exploration science at the SETI Institute spans the entire solar system – from planets and moons to asteroids and ...

"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of ...

The conjunction between Mars and the bright blue star Regulus began on Monday (June 16) and will bring the two objects side by side in the night sky. A conjunction occurs when two celestial bodies ...

When the Sun expands into a red giant, it will swallow the inner solar system and raise the temperature in the outer regions.

The Earth enters the solar system, where life turned out to be better than on Earth. The moon is trying to choose a new earth ...

Ancient supernovas may have blasted Earth with powerful radiation, causing dramatic changes in our climate, and could do so ...

Looking at images of Earth from space, you might have noticed a conspicuous lack of stars, but it turns out there's a good ...

Computer simulations show that planets could be flung out of the inner solar system, supporting the possible existence of a ...

U ranus is a very weird planet, and it turns out that there is a newly discovered oddity to add to its already extensive list. Astronomers used Hubble to study the interactions between the planet's ...