Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

Scientists have painted a scary scenario for the solar system, where one passerby might trigger the death of every planet, ...

Solar storms have the potential to cause catastrophic damage. One that occurred around the end of October 2003 (now called ...

But according to Dr. Brown, more than 100 other solar system bodies are likely to ... they determined that the elliptical orbit was oriented in a different direction. “And then we realized ...

Billions of years from now, the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and Earth. But that’s not the ...

WASHINGTON: A group of scientists has found a strange new object about 435 miles wide at the far edge of the solar system. It ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal object approximately 435 miles wide in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, ...

They said: ‘The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant because it’s found in a region of the Solar System thought to be empty ...

A new astronomical study suggests that Earth could one day be ejected from the solar system, not by the aging of the Sun, but ...