We refer to our own solar system as the solar system, and in a sense, it is the only one of its kind. For centuries, our sun was known as Sol, latin for sun and the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

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

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy. Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have ...

In a groundbreaking achievement in computational astrophysics, scientists have developed the first-ever simulation of the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers say they've spotted an object in our solar system that's believed to be from another part of the Milky Way galaxy. The European Space Agency says this is just ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The size of the solar system is defined by the volume ...

Greetings everyone! We’ve lost three of the five visible planets to the sun’s glare with only Jupiter remaining in the ...