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 film discusses the formation of the solar system, originating from a vast cloud of gas and dust over 4.5 billion years ago. It highlights the role of comets, which may contain remnants of the ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.

"These objects really could be anywhere in the solar system at any given time." One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking ...

Alpha Centauri is the star system closest to our Solar System, and it is likely that particles from it could be making their ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, is probably shedding comets and asteroids into our solar system — and even producing a few meteors in our sky. Located just 4.3 light-years ...

According to the team, the gravitational pull of our solar system's planets and passing stars do not have much of an effect on the Oort Cloud. The team's new model was plotted from "a viewpoint of ...

Gravity provides the force needed to maintain the stable orbit of planets around a star and also of moons and artificial satellites around a planet. The moons around planets in the Solar System ...