This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is extremely ...

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning ...

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

The Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once orbited in mathematical harmony around the infant sun. When you purchase ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...