Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

Astronomers have recently detected a rogue planet entering our solar system, marking a rare event that has sparked ...

The comet, originating from beyond our solar system, continues to draw attention from astronomers worldwide as multiple Nasa ...

The first was ‘Oumuamua, a small, cigar-shaped object that visited our solar system in 2017. Its true nature is still up for debate, though some experts believe it was a comet.

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the asteroid belt is today. The results are enough to make you grateful that ...

(Image credit: alexandarilich/Getty Images) Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's just a blip in the 13.8 billion-year story of the universe.

Thanks to new measurements of very old meteorites, the current consensus on the Solar System's age is 4.5684 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 240,000 years—a tiny fraction of a percent.

Solar System: Icy Worlds Season 51 Episode 12 | 53m 34s | AD CC Out in the solar system, ice can get bizarre. Visit strange, frozen worlds – from Uranus’s ultra-hot superionic ice, to glaciers ...

A quick guide to planets, including the eight in our solar system, how they form, and how many could be in the universe.

But black holes are much rarer in the universe, and the chance of one traveling through the solar system even a single time is low — much less that it would collide with something.