"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

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

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

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries: the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is the name given to ...

In this playful take on the solar system, each celestial body is described with distinct personality traits fit for a family ...

Alpha Centauri is the star system closest to our Solar System, and it is likely that ... [less than 10 meteors] may currently be entering Earth’s atmosphere every year,” Gregg and Wiegert ...

For the last month and change, you might've seen the headlines about the planetary alignment, or a planetary parade, going on in our solar system ... visible from Earth. So what does such a ...