A study accepted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters finds the giant planets could be thrown into chaos about a billion ...

The solar system could be destroyed much sooner than we thought, scientists say - Outer planets could be thrown out into the ...

According to a new study, the Solar System may break apart within about 6 billion years as the dying Sun’s uneven mass loss destabilizes the outer planets.

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests that the outer solar system could become dynamically unstable about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf, ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The recent discovery might help astronomers pick apart the mystery behind our own solar system. ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al. Astronomers have gotten ...

Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...