One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

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

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...

The three-star system, which likely hosts planets, is slowly moving closer to us and will reach its closest point in about 28,000 years.

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare ...

Researchers claim that there could be at least 1 million interstellar objects hiding in the Oort Cloud at the edge of our ...

Seven planets grace the sky at the end of February in what’s known as a planetary parade, though some will be difficult to ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

W. M. Keck Observatory’s laser guide star adaptive optics (LGS AO) system uses a laser to create an artificial star to measure for atmospheric distortions. This results in sharp, high-resolution ...