Despite this, the slightly eccentric and tilted orbits of the Solar System’s gas giants remain an enduring mystery. New ...

For centuries, humanity has gazed at the stars, unraveling the mysteries of celestial motion. But what if the unusual orbits ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

The science of the sun and its effects on the solar system is a sprawling discipline that expects a very exciting 2025 ...

The universe is vast and full of mysteries, and recent advancements in astronomy are helping us uncover secrets about deep ...

Scientists uncover interstellar tunnels linking our solar system to distant stars, revealing a dynamic cosmic architecture ...

On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the ...

What Is a Magnetosphere? A magnetosphere is the region surrounding a planet that is dominated by its magnetic field. While ...

The spacecraft, located more than 24 billion kilometres away, was feared lost to the cosmic ocean after decades of travel. But, as Andrew Griffins writes, thanks to a daring feat of human ingenuity ...