A recent study indicates a small chance that Earth could be ejected from our solar system due to passing stars. Simulations ...

Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit.

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a ...

A landowner in Louisa County is tangled up in disputes over how her land should be developed, reflecting an ongoing debate ...

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in ...

Faculty and alumni from across six decades reflected on Brown University’s impact as an international hub for solar system ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

NASA says with the help of data from the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed the presence of water crystals around a Sun-like star, some 155 light-years away from Earth. The star, ...

In the process, we can say goodbye to Mercury for sure, Venus most likely, and probably even Earth. But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty.