The solar system could be destroyed much sooner than we thought, scientists say - Outer planets could be thrown out into the ...

According to a new study, the Solar System may break apart within about 6 billion years as the dying Sun’s uneven mass loss destabilizes the outer planets.

What can rocky planets orbiting in the outer parts of a solar system teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a ...

What new methods can be used to find long-period exoplanets, or exoplanets with orbits lasting from months to decades? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside ...

It sounds like science fiction, but imagining a collision between Jupiter and a black hole helps reveal just how delicate our Solar System really is. Space is not empty and peaceful. It is a dynamic, ...

New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf.

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar system, they consider it likely that 6–40% of this material must have ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...