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 ...

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” – ...

As the nearest celestial body to Earth, Moon’s space environment is distinctive to Earth’s mainly because of lack of a significant atmosphere/ionosphere and a global magnetic field. From a global ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...