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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA scientists found evidence of darkness on the 'leading side' of Uranus' moons, which they expected to be bright.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

During the red giant phase, both the Sun and Jupiter will shine brighter and become hotter. However, its moon Europa is ...

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have ...

More than 150 moons orbit worlds in our solar system. Known as natural satellites ... Within the heliosphere, some of the planets are wrapped in their own bubbles—called magnetospheres ...

Given just how big space is, the solar system seems like it shouldn't be too mysterious. But there are actually plenty of ...