NASA scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could change how we understand the dynamics of exoplanetary systems ...

ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity ...

A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

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 system's planets onto a different course.

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The sun's distance from Earth changes throughout ... For some bodies, like all of the planets of the solar system, the difference between the perihelion and aphelion is quite negligible.

Conduct more detailed simulations to refine the characteristics of the interstellar object and its encounter with the solar system. Search for observational evidence of such past encounters in the ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

An interstellar visitor may have warped the solar ... This object would have come within 1.69 astronomical units of the sun, which is only slightly farther than the distance between the sun ...