A recent study indicates a small chance that Earth could be ejected from our solar system due to passing stars. Simulations ...

The White House bid to terminate NASA’s fantastical flights of exploration “across the solar system” threatens to explode ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit.

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar ...

The image, captured by NASA ’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, is the first of its kind: a volcano on the Red Planet seen on the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...