Astronomers have recently detected a rogue planet entering our solar system, marking a rare event that has sparked ...

Scientists theorised about the possibility of Planet Y after spotting a strange ‘warp’ in the Kuiper belt, which is a ring of ...

UW’s Institute for Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, founded in 2016 with support from the Charles and ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

The immensity of space makes it impossible for humans to discover every hiding place the universe holds. Its infinitude makes ...

In a captivating twist of cosmic events, astronomers have recently turned their attention to an extraordinary object known as 3I/Atlas, which is racing through our solar system at a staggering speed ...

Some stars in the universe grow to 300 times larger our own sun. But how do they get so big, and how do they sustain their ...

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the asteroid belt is today. The results are enough to make you grateful that ...

None of this has improved my dimensia to the point that I can relate to the size of the solar system or the Milky Way, much less the universe.

But when will the solar system end? And how will it die out? The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system. You may like The universe may be dying much ...

Black holes aren't "cosmic vacuum cleaners," but what would happen if one wandered into our solar system?