A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

Given that by conservative estimates our galaxy harbors at least 200 billion ... like the original star cluster in which our own solar system formed. But early such clusters are tumultuous places.

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or ...

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

It's possible for our solar system to capture a rogue planet and give it a home as it hurtles through the galaxy, according to a new study. In 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory were ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

While most objects in our solar system orbit the same plane ... And we've even observed fluctuations of starlight in our own galaxy, which primordial black holes could explain.

We will never get an image of the Milky Way from above, but M81 or Bode's galaxy is a good stand-in – and now is a great time ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and our Solar System is about half-way along one of its arms. Our Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way at about 140 miles every second. It takes about 230 ...

With a lining up of planets and distant galaxies visible to the naked eye, there is a lot to see in the skies in February.