Earth is not only orbiting the Sun it is also traveling through the Milky Way on an enormous galactic journey. In this video ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” is a trans-Neptunian object ...

Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

The Gaia telescope spotted more than 6,000 sunlike stars, all of which appear to have migrated from the galaxy's center more ...

For the first time in human history, we're watching a new solar system come to life. Not in theory, but in real, observable detail. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and its incredible ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Some of the greatest minds in the history of science have investigated the long-term stability of the solar system, including Newton, Laplace, and Poincare. The most recent contribution comes from an ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...