In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

A look at the potential effects of a rogue planet entering our solar system, from shifting Earth’s orbit to triggering ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...