As far-fetched as it may seem, quirks of orbital mechanics could allow hundreds of planets to be packed around a star ...

The fate of our solar system is written in the stars—well, one star to be precise: the sun. Estimates of what the end will ...

The Sun’s death is not an event the planets will quietly survive—it is the trigger for their orbital undoing.” ...

Hello, this is Mu-san.Today, I'm talking about how long the solar system will remain in its current form.The outer planets, ...

Earth will be long gone by then, but new research shows the outer planets will be thrown out too, and a billion times earlier than expected, according to astrophysics research. View on euronews ...

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.

As published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, theoretical astrophysicists Konstantin Batygin and Jim Fuller of Caltech, ...

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 ...

It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the edge of our solar system, evading all our efforts to spot it. Some astronomers ...

Discover what the Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program has learned about the outer planets, including Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. When studying the outer planets of our solar ...

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