"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

Space looks very dark from Earth. But does the solar system, and the universe for that matter, have an area that's the ...

In simple terms, this means the solar system seems to be moving more than three times faster than predictions based on the ...

Our solar system is speeding through space much faster than previously thought, challenging the fundamental assumptions that ...

A team using the LOFAR radio telescope network made this claim. They combined LOFAR data with two other sensitive radio ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

Astronomers still aren't exactly sure how planets get their start. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you want to build a planet, ...

An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...

Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...