They discovered nearly 700 stars that will pass within 15 light-years of our solar system over just the next 15 million years. However, the vast majority of close encounters have yet to be ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the ...

The IAU, among other things, decides the official names of stellar objects, including planetary features, exoplanets, and stars. But there’s no precedent for naming a planet in our solar system ...

In the search for life in our solar system, one of the most promising locations is Saturn's moon Titan. This unusual moon has atmosphere, weather, desert-like regions, and, perhaps most ...

The universe is filled with enormous planets that make the Earth seem like nothing more than a speck of sand on a mountain. We don't even need to leave our solar system in order to find the ...

The meteorites therefore carry a history of how far back the elements that make up our solar system formed – and it turns out, it was something like 80 million years before our planet formed.

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take ...

Believe me, if you’re naming a star after your old Uncle Louie, no serious astronomer at any university or college will ever research the possibility of a solar system of planets orbiting Louie.