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 ...

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 ...

Scientists may add a new dwarf planet to the official roster of our solar system. The distant, icy body, provisionally dubbed ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

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.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. By Katherine Kornei If our species manages to hang on ...

We all know that space is cool, but some places in the Solar System are cooler than others — literally. There is an extremely wide range of temperatures throughout our cosmic neighborhood, from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...