Ten events that would unfold if gravity suddenly vanished, beginning with the effects on our bodies and ending with the ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid. Created just a ...

Gleise 710, an orange dwarf star about 63 light years away, is on course to pass through the outer reaches of our solar system in about 1.2 million years, disturbing the distant Oort Cloud of icy ...

The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the discovery of subtle warps spotted in many planet-forming disks around young stars.

What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be? From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the ...

"The comet was a witness to the events that shaped the solar system into what we see today." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

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