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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 ... And this will eventually change, as other planets in the solar system gravitationally yank and squeeze Earth’s orbit in the future.