Astronomers have found a “very special” solar system with six planets that are locked in a strange rhythm. The worlds move around their central stars in resonance, locked in a rhythmic dance ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

Currently, the interstellar comet is around 323 million mile from Earth, located within Jupiter's orbit. On the 19th of December it will reach around 167 million miles from Earth.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.

In fact, it could break the record for the fastest moving visitor in our solar system (relative to Earth), Rodríguez said. Most objects in our solar system have velocities around 5 to 10 ...

As a result of the Milky Way's gravitational pull, the Solar System accelerates by 7 millimeters per second each year in its orbit around the galaxy. But this is the first time scientists have ...

This is pretty awesome: an interactive map of the solar system that lets you see how the major objects in our solar system move around the sun. Click and drag to see where everything will be ...

The sun is around 1,000 times more massive than Jupiter, which is the fifth planet in the solar system, so the effect on the sun as a result of the gas giant is no more than a 40-mile-per-hour ...