solar system (Page 2)

Latest in solar system

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

Scientists Spot Spiral Structure at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that our Solar System may already be swimming in interstellar objects that originate from the Alpha Centauri system.

Alpha Centauri Sending Stream of Objects Into Our Solar System, Scientists Propose

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is just days away from flying into the Sun, in a daring bid to glean the secrets of our star's megahot winds.

A NASA Spacecraft Is About to Fly Through the Sun

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets

By Frank Landymore

The interstellar tunnel, a feature of an enormous structure called the Local Bubble, could lead to nearby stars.

Astronomers Discover “Interstellar Tunnel” In Our Solar Neighborhood

By Frank Landymore

An oddly shaped — and "potentially hazardous — asteroid the size of a skyscraper sure looks like an oversized peanut.

Radar Images Show Large Object Drifting Past Earth

By Frank Landymore

According to a pair of new studies, a passing star could have scraped the outer limits of the Solar System billions of years ago.

A Star Appears to Have Come Closer to Earth Than the Voyager Probes

By Frank Landymore

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet in our Solar System — and new research suggests that it's out there.

Scientists Say They’ve Found More Evidence of Hidden Planet in Our Solar System

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.

Scientists Study What Would Happen If a Rogue Star Crashed Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

$By using sound waves propagating through the Sun, researchers think our star's radius may be fractionally shorter than the traditional model.$

Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought

By Frank Landymore

Previous research projected that a rogue white dwarf was on a collision course with our solar system. Not so, says a new study.

Bad News! A Rogue Star Will Not Crash Into Us, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.

Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

By Frank Landymore

According to a new study, the water in our Solar System is likely older than our Sun — and the secret, they say, was discovered in another star.

Water Existed Long Before the Solar System, Astronomers Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If our solar system wasn't weird, we'd expect to find another "super-Earth" sized planet near Jupiter. Turns out though, that would probably kill us.

If There Was a “Super-Earth” In Our Solar System, It Would Probably Kill Us All

By Frank Landymore

A newly discovered ring system belonging to the dwarf planet Quaoar is so large that astronomers are rethinking previously theorized limits on ring sizes.

Astronomers Amazed By Tiny Object With Huge Planetary Ring

By Frank Landymore

After examining over 200,000 images taken by Hubble, a faint excess of light spread across our sky has been detected by astronomers.

Scientists Stumped by “Ghostly Glow” Surrounding Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

After running nearly 3,000 simulations, scientists found that a minor change in Neptune's orbit caused by a passing star could disrupt our system's orbits.

Scientists Predict That The Solar System Could Collapse If a Star Flew Too Close

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers believe that observing this dead star and its solar system might offer an unprecedented glimpse into planetary beginnings.

Scientists Spot Dying Star Brutally Tearing Up Its Unfortunate Planets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists can't yet see dark matter, but they may soon be able to measure it.

NASA Proposes Sending Spacecraft to Measure Mysterious Dark Matter

By Noor Al-Sibai

A meme has been circulating since 2021 trying to disprove the existence of gas planets like Jupiter — but NASA and others disproved the conspiracy.

Nitwits Claim Wrongly to Have Disproved the Existence of Jupiter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a gigantic comet — and they say it’s headed towards Earth.

The Biggest Comet Ever Discovered Is About to Cruise by Earth

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of researchers has discovered the fastest-orbiting asteroid in the solar system. It gets even closer to the Sun than Mercury.

Scientists Just Discovered the Fastest Asteroid in the Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers suggest trans-Neptunian objects could still be distributed uniformly in our Solar System, poking a hole in the Planet Nine theory.

Planet Nine Might Not Actually Exist, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A close look at an asteroid fragment revealed crystals that likely formed on an ancient, long-gone dwarf planet-sized object.

Scientists Say There Was a Huge, Mysterious Object in the Early Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

Billions of years from now, scientists predict that the Sun's hold on planets will wane and other stars will steal them out of the solar system.

Eventually, Other Stars Will Steal our Solar System’s Planets

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the entire solar system took a mere 200,000 years to form — considerably less time than how long humanity has been around.

Humans Have Been Around for Longer Than it Took the Solar System to Form, Study Claims

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers from Harvard University and the Black Hole Initiative developed a new method to hunt for evidence of Planet Nine.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Want to Figure Out What the Hell Planet Nine Is Once and For All

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

There is a chance that incoming stars that whip past the Earth could throw it out of orbit and move it away from the Sun, an astrophycisist argues.

Researcher: Passing Star Could Yeet Earth Out of Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Assuming the vacuum of space didn't prevent sound from traveling, what would the Sun sound like? Turns out, it might be rather annoying...

Science & Energy

If Sound Traveled Through Space, the Sun Would Be Extremely Annoying

Research teams have discovered dust grains older than our solar system in two meteorites that landed on separate parts of the Earth in 1969.

Materials Older Than the Solar System Found in Two Meteorites

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that a fiery layer of super-hot plasma marks the transition between our solar system and interstellar space.

Our Solar System Is Blanketed in a Giant Wall of Fire

By Dan Robitzski

It's a vision in which humankind has gone off world, built an orbital economy, and then watched it slowly disintegrate, like your hometown after the factory closed. It's hard to say if it's plausible, but it's emotionally resonant.

In “Ad Astra,” Off-World Colonies Are Crumbling Strip Malls

By Jon Christian

NASA's Oddysey spacecraft recently captured some colorful candids of the Martian moon, Phobos. Here's what makes the snapshots so sweet.

New Photos of Mars’ Moon Phobos “Look Like Candy.” Here’s Why.

Astronomers have discovered a planetary fragment orbiting a white dwarf, and it could yield new insights into the future of our own solar system.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Fragment of Planet Orbiting Its Dead Star

By Kristin Houser

An upcoming galactic collision could wake the Milky Way's black hole and fling our solar system into intergalactic space, according to new research.

Galactic Collision Could Fling Our Solar System Into Intergalactic Space

By Jon Christian

Astronomers Just Found a Dwarf Planet Three Times As Far Away As Pluto

Astronomers Just Found a Dwarf Planet Three Times As Far Away As Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found a treasure trove of forming planets

Researchers Found a Treasure Trove of Planets Hiding in Dust

planet 9 nasa solar system kuiper belt

NASA Press Release Says Our Solar System Has a 9th Planet

SETI Scientist: Seven Places In Our Solar System Likely Host Microbial Life

SETI Scientist: Seven Places In Our Solar System Likely Host Microbial Life

Mercury May Be Even Icier Than We Thought

Mercury May Be Even Icier Than We Thought

OSIRIS-REx Will Pass Within 11,000 Miles of Earth on Friday

OSIRIS-REx Will Pass Within 11,000 Miles of Earth on Friday

cassini space saturn solar system

It’s Official: Cassini Just Completed Its Death Dive Into Saturn

By Alexandra Ossola

Planet 9 Probably Isn’t an Exoplanet, After All

Planet 9 Probably Isn’t an Exoplanet, After All

When Will the First Human Leave the Solar System?

When Will the First Human Leave the Solar System?

By Christianna Reedy

Scientists Just Presented New Evidence That Supports Planet Nine’s Existence

Science & Energy

Scientists Just Presented New Evidence That Supports Planet Nine’s Existence

New Evidence Suggests That Our Solar System Has 10 Planets

New Evidence Suggests That Our Solar System Has 10 Planets

By Patrick Caughill

hat-p-26b exoplanet tess jwst solar system

An Ultra-Rare “Impossible” Planet Could Revolutionize Our Understanding of Space

The Next Generation of Explorers Might be Tiny, Folding Robots

The Next Generation of Explorers Might be Tiny, Folding Robots

By Neil C. Bhavsar

Soon, We’ll Know if TRAPPIST-1’s Exoplanets Could Support Life

Soon, We’ll Know if TRAPPIST-1’s Exoplanets Could Support Life

By June Javelosa

NASA Scientists Have a New Way to Define Planets

Science & Energy

NASA Scientists Have a New Way to Define Planets

Missing Cosmos? There Are Parts of Our Solar System We’ve Yet to Discover

Missing Cosmos? There Are Parts of Our Solar System We’ve Yet to Discover

By Eleazer Corpuz

planet nine solar system wobble

Planet Nine Could Answer a 150-Year-Old Question About Our Solar System

By June Javelosa

Researchers Have Found Evidence of Two New Moons Orbiting Uranus

Researchers Have Found Evidence of Two New Moons Orbiting Uranus

By June Javelosa

The Hunt For Alien Life: Meet the Aquatic Worlds of Our Solar System

From Quarks to Quasars

The Hunt For Alien Life: Meet the Aquatic Worlds of Our Solar System

By Jelor Gallego

The Sun Just Killed the Fastest-Moving Object in the Solar System

The Sun Just Killed the Fastest-Moving Object in the Solar System

An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star

An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star

By Todd Jaquith

New Horizons May Have Spotted Gravity Waves Rippling Across Pluto

New Horizons May Have Spotted Gravity Waves Rippling Across Pluto

By Todd Jaquith

We’re Going to Visit the Farthest Reaches of Our Solar System

We’re Going to Visit the Farthest Reaches of Our Solar System

By Sarah Marquart

We’ve Successfully Grown Crops in ‘Martian’ Soil

We’ve Successfully Grown Crops in ‘Martian’ Soil

By Sarah Marquart

NASA is Making a New Telescope With a View 100 Times Larger Than Hubble’s

NASA is Making a New Telescope With a View 100 Times Larger Than Hubble’s

By Sarah Marquart

Scientists Find Largest Rocky Planet Ever Discovered, Half as Big as Neptune

Scientists Find Largest Rocky Planet Ever Discovered, Half as Big as Neptune

By Sarah Marquart

Meet Callisto: The Moon with an Ocean and an Atmosphere

Meet Callisto: The Moon with an Ocean and an Atmosphere

By Darwin Batinga