The sun is far exceeding the consensus forecast, National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Scott McIntosh said last year, ...

The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute ...

Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...

Claims for the detection of life on other planets go back decades. Here's why you should still be skeptical despite recent ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more impressive than ever.

As we attempt to become a multi-planet species recent research has mapped a “interstellar tunnel” from our solar system ... 3D model of it. At the same time, they discovered a large-scale ...

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the Solar System in existence, and it spans the entire Swedish territory. It was created by astronomers Nils Brenning and Gösta Gahm to help ...

At the edge of our solar system, a host of large, icy bodies make up the Oort ... its shape. Pairing an analytic model with the supercomputer simulation, they concluded that the numerous bodies within ...

Figure 1: The inner Solar System and outcomes of simulations of its formation. Although planets follow nearly circular, co-planar orbits ... this is the only known model that is compatible ...

How our own Solar System came ... at which it currently orbits from the Sun, then swooped inward, trading places with Saturn due to an orbital resonance. However, that model challenges the current ...