A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

A star with a mass similar to our Sun passing within 10,000 astronomical units could disturb Oort Cloud, which is located far ...

Each satellite would be fitted with an electrical propulsion system and utilize gravity assists from Venus to maintain its orbital path. According to the paper, this system could maintain ...

The dwarf planet's existence also opens the likelihood of many more like it in our solar system waiting to be found ... has not cleared its orbital path of asteroids and other objects," said NBC News.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 OF201, ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

The Solar System might not be as quiet and orderly as we think. Imagine one day looking up and seeing something strange in ...

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...

Most solar system models place the Sun at the center to make the math easier. But for comets with long, looping orbits—those that take more than 200 years to come back—the wobble of the Sun ...

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...