When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

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. When ...

A large asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Neptune and Jupiter is an intriguing oddball as far as cosmic rocks go. Chiron, as the strange centaur is called, is what astronomers call a minor ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of ...

More and more countries of the world are beginning to use alternative energy sources, including solar. Therefore, modest rooftop panels are being replaced by "solar farms" spread over vast areas. So, ...

For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar system. Now, a team of researchers have taken a completely different approach to ...

A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted. It's the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, and it was detected on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system ...