An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Through the end of February, all the planets in our solar system will visibly align in the sky, like a trope taken straight ...

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

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

A new study suggests that a planet-sized object may have passed through the solar system billions of years ago.