For obvious reasons, the Sun’s influence weakens as you get closer to the edge of the solar system. But things might be a lot ...

NASA's New Horizons found the solar wind slows as it nears interstellar space, helping improve models of the solar system's ...

Our latest known interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is currently making its way out of the solar system, after passing by ...

Based on evidence collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have found that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could ...

(via Be Smart) Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the solar system. And it won’t be until 2027… But this being a science channel, you might be ...

Exactly where the comet 3I/ATLAS came from within the Milky Way remains a mystery.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The size of the solar system is defined by the volume ...

For a long time, Earth’s ending seemed settled. In about five billion years, the sun will swell into a giant, the inner Solar ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

When the sun dies, it will become hundreds of times its current size and engulf the innermost planets. Earth may escape this ...

When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...