Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

The curious minds at What If investigate the cosmic chaos caused by swapping the orbits of certain planets in our solar system.

ESA's Gaia mission has determined he orbits of 154,741 asteroids in our solar system. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...