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

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

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

While we perceive the Sun as yellow, its actual colour is white. This is because our atmosphere scatters the shorter, blue ...

If you're looking to impress your friends with some rare space facts, these gems will serve you well. The Largest Known Star Is 2,150 Times the Size of Our Sun Our Sun is huge, relative to us. It is ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Related: Wild solar weather is causing satellites to plummet ... see Starlink as the number one source of collision hazard in Earth's orbit. In addition to that, some scientists worry that the ...

The analyses showed that the Earth rocks they studied were more similar to meteorites sourced from the inner solar system meteorites (NC) rather than meteorites sourced from the outer solar system ...