If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around supermassive black holes, forming galaxies. Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's ...

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a ... leave its current orbit around the gravitationally-stable ...

To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...

At just over 20,000 mph, experts say they're the fastest of their kind on any known planet. Find out more here.

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

Technology tests are scheduled for the weeks ahead before Gaia is moved to its "retirement" orbit ... of our Milky Way galaxy, and has also transformed astrophysics and solar system science ...

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, because they all originally formed from the same disc of debris around the ... imagined A new way of interpreting ...