Scientists are investigating the potential for dramatic shifts in the solar system’s configuration, potentially jeopardizing Earth’s...

Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit. ......

Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit. ......

Future Space A new study reveals Earth has a 0.2% chance of being ejected from the solar system due to[...]

Mercury’s elusive meteorites have never been conclusively identified, however, a new study published in Icarus by OU academic, Dr Ben...

For 540-million years, the ebb and flow in the strength of Earth’s magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen, according...

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ends of the...

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ends of the...

Watching the night sky, the time it takes for light from these celestial objects to reach Earth is vastly different...

Our solar system contains three types of planets. Between the four terrestrial planets–Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars–and the distant ice giants...