The fate of our solar system is written in the stars—well, one star to be precise: the sun. Estimates of what the end will ...

The solar system could be destroyed much sooner than we thought, scientists say - Outer planets could be thrown out into the ...

As published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, theoretical astrophysicists Konstantin Batygin and Jim Fuller of Caltech, ...

New modeling shows that chaotic mass loss from the Sun could shake up the orbits of giant planets even before it turns into a ...

It has about a 1 percent chance of leaving the Solar System within the next 5 billion years and a fraction of the models show ...

The status of Pluto not withstanding, our solar system has 8 planets, but one astronomer believes we used to have a ninth that was eaten by the sun.

According to a new study, the Solar System may break apart within about 6 billion years as the dying Sun’s uneven mass loss destabilizes the outer planets.

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to the ...

Outer Planet Probe - Unmanned Planetary Probe. MVP ARCHIVE HISTORICAL GALLERY > VOYAGER 1 1977 / Voyager 1 \| Outer Planet Probe - Unmanned Planetary P ...

The TRAPPIST-1 solar system generated a swell of interest when it was observed several years ago. In 2016, astronomers using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) at La ...

Astronomers studying a disk of material circling a still-forming star inside our Galaxy have found a tantalizing result — the inner part of the disk is orbiting the protostar in the opposite direction ...

Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...