At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to interstellar space, Voyager 1 has stumbled into something that ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

The image was taken when the exocomet was nearly 178 million miles away from Earth. In its blog describing the new picture, ...

A new study with the incredibly exciting title of "Overdispersed Radio Source Counts and Excess Radio Dipole Detection" has ...

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...

"Our analysis shows that the Solar System is moving more than three times faster than current models predict," lead author ...

About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, a 500 km-wide icy world famed for its south polar geysers spewing water from a ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.