An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Faculty and alumni from across six decades reflected on Brown University’s impact as an international hub for solar system ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

OF201 spends only 1% of its orbital time close enough to us to be detectable. The presence of this single object suggests ...

The universe is a complete unknown to humans. We are not yet able to control and understand the system in which Earth is located, as evidenced by the possible discovery made by a g ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have been traveling through the vast reaches of space, sending back groundbreaking data about ...

Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...