An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

After receiving feedback from nearly 500 people about revising NOAA's Space Weather Scales, scientists continue to assess what changes need to be front and center. Scientists are proposing ways to ...

Keep your eyes on the sky. Six planets in our solar system are coming into alignment and will be visible from Earth. AccuWeather says Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will be visible ...

There are many theories about how dynamics in the early solar system led to the cosmic neighbourhood we now inhabit, but ...

There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond the eighth planet Neptune. The tantalizing prospect of a ninth ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains ... this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more conducive ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar ... The simulations show that just one ...