This Thursday night, for the first time in nearly two-and-a-half years, our planet's faithful companion is going to get fancy and put on a lovely shade of rouge.

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

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At the edge of our solar system, a host of large, icy bodies make up the Oort cloud, which appears to sport two spiral arms reminiscent of a disk-shaped galaxy. New research founded upon a simulation ...

What followed was a “But…” that you could hear in the Yukon. But our system of government gave the Senate a specific task. The Constitution gives us a particular role. This body is not ...

This week Mercury joins the queue. Now every other world in our solar system will be visible among the stars at the same time — if you know where to look. According to Gerard van Belle ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought. According to a new study ...