Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Decoding the Kuiper Belt The Kuiper Belt begins at about 50 astronomical units (au) from the Sun, stretching ... is that a ...

Astronomers say they've found an "interstellar tunnel" near our solar system that potentially leads to the vicinity of other ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

After being in Early Access on Steam for over a year, the game Asterogues will release the full version in just a couple of ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

“The seventh Venus flyby, however, was especially unique, in that spacecraft flew through the planet’s ... Parker Solar Probe ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

Jaw-dropping new images show Jupiter in eye-popping detail. NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured incredible views of the stormy ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

If their orbits happen to get deflected by some slight gravitational tug from a planet or other piece of solar system debris, they may head toward the sun. Once they are close enough to the sun to be ...

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...