They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

Interstellar comets offer the tantalizing opportunity for us to touch something truly otherworldly,” says the European Space ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...

For folks in the United States, July evenings mean 4th of July fireworks. While you're waiting for the show, be sure to watch ...

Scientists may have solved alongstanding mystery in the study of Mercury. For the first time, pieces of the Solar System’s ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

New research suggests that Mercury's crust is shifting and twisting in unexpected ways thanks to the force of the Sun.

According to US space agency NASA, the interloper - named 3I/ATLAS - was first spotted on Tuesday by an Asteroid ...

A meteor shower, a planet sighting, and a full moon. Here's how to see all of space's eye-catching activity in July.

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