The Alpha Centauri system, the closest to Earth, contains three stars: Alpha Centauri A and B, and Proxima Centauri,the closest star to the Sun at just 4.24 light-years away.

Tidal forces from Earth, Venus and Jupiter may help keep the sun calm, reducing the risk of powerful solar storms that ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

The death of the Sun is often thought of as the end of the solar system ... planet orbiting close to a dead star? A white dwarf has about half the mass of the Sun, but that mass is compressed into a ...

Billions of years ago, Jupiter’s violent growth transformed the young solar system, smashing icy and rocky bodies together at ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got an up-close look at a headline-grabbing object known as 3I/ATLAS that has wandered into Earth's cosmic neighborhood.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own ...

Astronomers witness dawn of new solar system for 1st time Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star.