Our solar system is on the move, traveling at 828,000 km/h through a galactic structure most people don't know exists. This ...

BRITS are clueless about our solar system – with four in 10 unable to identify the biggest planet and a quarter uncertain ...

Fantasizing about interplanetary exploration is a fun mental exercise, but the harsh realities of life (or lack thereof) in our Solar System is for good reason.

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

Rewind 3.8 billion years to the end of the solar system's most violent chapter: the Late Heavy Bombardment. This video reveals what happened when the final wave of asteroids and comets crashed into ...

Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...

Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks ...

Like a toddler right before naptime, TRAPPIST-1 is a small yet moody star. This little star, which sits in the constellation ...

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...