Space is stranger than you think. Our solar system — the only one we’ve ever called home — is packed with phenomena so bizarre, so extreme, and so counterintuitive that they sound like pure science ...

The Solar System is far stranger than most people imagine, from Olympus Mons and Uranus rolling on its side to Jupiter’s shrinking storm and the distant Oort Cloud. These strange facts reveal a cosmic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way. Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the best coverage of ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) The interstellar comet, originally called A11pl3Z and now ...

This video shows our solar system moving through the galaxy. The view is from a hypothetical vantage of a typical interstellar object in the sun’s vicinity. Illustration via Tony Dunn at Orbit ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

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. The outer planets of ...

In humanity’s millennia of staring at the stars and decades of launching probes to explore our universe, only two spacecraft carrying working instruments have ever managed to escape the bubble of ...