Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

The orbits of the planets around the Sun have been the source for many a scientific debate. Their current orbital properties are well understood but the planetary orbits have evolved and changed since ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) might be the brightest comet of the year, scientists predict.

A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories observed today, a new study says. Interactions with ...

Astronomers have discovered a new member of a rare and mysterious class of solar system objects known as sednoids — a subset of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) with exceptionally distant, ...

South Korean former president sentenced to 5 years in prison over martial law Iraq takes full control of air base after US ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Avi Loeb's controversial claim that a recent fireball resulted from an interstellar object is taking a hammering. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...