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

The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What ...

Image of the Earth taken by Himawari 8 at 18:00 (UTC) on August 11, 2018. The zoom-in images show Venus captured in the ...

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

A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor temporal changes ...

NASA's PUNCH mission has unveiled its first images of colossal solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — ...

Venus is also covered in thick clouds of carbon dioxide that hold in heat, which makes it the hottest planet in the solar system. Venus has no moons.