When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: rbkomar/Getty Images Earth isn't alone in orbiting our sun; it's joined by a bunch of ...
Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The sun is expected to last another 5 billion years, at which point it will become unstable and ...
Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...
Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's just a blip in the 13.8 billion-year story of the universe. And one day, the solar system will cease to ...