Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun defines everything we take for granted. Day and night, the seasons, and the steady presence of ...

A comet that was born in another solar system and could be billions of years old is hurdling through Earth’s solar system — a discovery made on July 1 that’s led some astronomers to speculate that the ...

Short-lived radioisotopes such as aluminum-26 influenced early solar system heat, water retention and the formation of Earth-like rocky planets, according to meteorite analyses and models.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiter planets is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimension, a team of astronomers says. What's more, the researchers are ...

A solar conjunction occurs as Venus' orbit carries it into alignment with the sun and Earth. Venus will align with the sun ...