The curious minds at What If imagine a quasar entering our solar system, exploring radiation, gravitational effects, and planetary destruction.

Humanity has walked on the Moon, explored Mars with rovers, and sent spacecraft beyond the edge of the solar system, yet the ...

There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for astronomers to study an object born a long time ago in a star system far, far away.

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, a remarkable cosmic entity, began its journey far beyond our solar system, potentially expelled by a cataclysmic event from another star system. It made headlines when it approached ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The sun is expected to last another 5 billion years, at which point it will become unstable and ...

"Exploring the planets, asteroids & comets of our solar system" -Cf. cover of jewelcase. Summary View the awsome landscapes of Mars, the Amazing moons of Jupiter, the majestic rings of Saturn and more ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, ...