A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

High in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, something extraordinary is happening. Perched on the peak of Cerro Pachón at ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...

In 2017, ‘Oumuamua stunned scientists as the interstellar object entered and then exited the solar system, something ...

Astronomers have spotted unusual molecular activity in the largest Oort Cloud comet, comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 ...

This summer, as temperatures soar past 30°C, a bombshell report commissioned by the Department for Energy Security and Net ...

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth. Comments ( 0 ) (Image credit: Yevheniia Kudrova via Getty Images) Jump to: The sun fast facts ...

This difference "doesn't mean it's not there, but it means it's not Planet Nine," Brown told Science. "I don't think this planet would have any of the effects on the solar system that we think we ...

As global temperatures rise, scientists debate the pros and cons of solar geoengineering, a strategy to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight into space.