A scientist has warned that if the mysterious interstellar object in our solar system is actually an alien probe, it may be ...

Astronomers have found a third interstellar object, something that has origins beyond our own solar system. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, is not believed to pose any danger to Earth.

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the asteroid belt is today. The results are enough to make you grateful that ...

Getty Star of our solar system 3D illustration close shot. Nebula gases erupting from the Sun's surface. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued the solar storm watch the night of May 9. However ...

A new astronomical study suggests that Earth could one day be ejected from the solar system, not by the aging of the Sun, but by the unpredictable trajectory of a rogue star. While such a scenario ...

First images of new solar system forming help explain Earth's own origins 'This discovery is a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our Solar System, but at a much earlier stage of ...

Computer simulations of the solar system’s future reveal a new risk facing us all: The gravitational tug of a passing star could either cause another planet to smack into Earth or else fling our ...

That’s right, we’re bringing back geocentrism. Truly making Earth the centre of our solar system is going to take more than just fudging the maths.

At that time, early human ancestors shared our planet with prehistoric animals like mastodons and sabretooth tigers. It's also when Earth was in the midst of the ice age that ended only around ...

Our solar system formed from a dense cloud of gas and dust that collapsed into a swirling disk of matter, most of which gravitated to the disk's center — which would eventually become the sun ...