The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...