A small, icy traveler from deep space has just threaded its way through the inner Solar System, offering a fleeting but ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

This rogue star has been traveling the Universe. And now, it's finally entering our Solar System. But this isn't just any ...

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Scientists find that two hot stars passed near our solar system 4.4 million years ago, altering nearby interstellar clouds.

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A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in ...