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 ...

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

"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 ...

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

The companion star in this system has a mass that is 1.174 solar masses (M ⊙), which is significantly lower than that of other known neutron stars with accurately measured masses. The nature of ...

As such, even detecting an exoplanet is rare; so far, only 6,000 worlds outside our solar system have been discovered, and they're usually spotted by searching for dips in the light of a star they ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

Among the various places humans have aspired to visit in the solar system, the sun remains the ... Probe arrived within 6.1 million km from the star’s surface. This is a short distance to ...