"It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When compared to our own solar system, our nearest star system – the Alpha Centauri triple star system – is quite unusual. For starters, as the name suggests, it contains not one but three stars: ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured extraordinary images of a rapidly collapsing star system in the Andromeda Galaxy. This discovery offers a unique glimpse into stellar evolution and the ...

Earlier this month, the comet passed within 12 miles of Mars, giving NASA's HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter a chance to capture its closest photos yet. Those images have not been ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...