Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

The size of the Solar System and the Universe is truly beyond our comprehension. When we think of the vastness of space, we ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Scientists have been studying an interstellar object that's currently moving through our solar system which was first spotted on 1 July. It has been called 3I/ATLAS because of what spotted it, and ...

In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that ...

So, while Earth will eventually leave the solar system one way or another, it's not something we will have to worry about for a few billion years yet. Probably. Originally published on Live Science.

There may be another world lurking between the orbital lines of our solar system. Astronomers in Japan have published their theory of an “Earth-like planet,” dubbed Planet Nine, that’s ...

At some point during our middle school years, we all get an education in the Physical and Life Sciences that sets a baseline for understanding facts about ...

Our solar system was long considered a template for all planetary systems. In the last 25 years, however, it has quickly and firmly become an outlier for lacking its own super-Earth. NASA's ...

So, while Earth will eventually leave the solar system one way or another, it's not something we will have to worry about for a few billion years yet. Probably. Originally published on Live Science.

In Liu Cixin's short story "The Wandering Earth (opens in new tab)" (first published in Chinese magazine Science Fiction World in July 2000), Cixin portrays a scenario in which the planet's leaders ...