A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

Earth could be thrown off its orbit and flung into another planet or even the Sun due to gravitational disturbances caused by passing stars, a new scientific study has warned.

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

Researchers believe that 2017 OF201s highly eccentric orbit points to a chaotic origin, possibly caused by a gravitational ...

The chance of a planet forming in the outer reaches of the solar system – a hypothetical Planet Nine – could be as high as 40 ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

The reasoning was that Pluto's location in the far-flung Trans-Neptunian region of the solar system meant that other ... t necessarily be detectable from Earth, but it might be detectable via ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Earth and the other planets rotate around the Sun in an anticlockwise direction. A year is the time it takes a ...

Earth's orbital distance from the sun is called an astronomical unit ... caused by a long-ago close encounter with the gravitational influence of a giant planet. "We still don't know much about the ...

This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA ...