"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss the opportunity." ...

Nothing in our universe stands still: Earth orbits the sun, the sun circles the galaxy, and even galaxies are constantly on the move. So why is everything in space in motion? It all comes down to ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

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 James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

Even if we don’t feel it, our little blue planet—and everything on it—is hurtling through space at incredible ... within the Solar System. But that’s not all: we are moving within the ...

Now, University of Vienna doctoral student Efrem Maconi thinks that our whole Solar System may have passed through this incredible structure. Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia ...

CHILD: So how old is our solar system? MADDIE: That’s a great question! Let’s ask an expert. DR BECKY: Hi, I’m Dr Becky and I am a space expert ... ice and rock and move around Saturn.

ranging from irregular town-size space rocks to massive rounded bodies that are potentially big enough to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we ...