kids grew up learning that the solar system has nine planets. That all changed in the late 1990s when astronomers started arguing about whether Pluto was indeed a planet. In a highly controversial ...

Because they're surrounded by foul-smelling gases that are incompatible with the human sense of smell, living on the surface ...

If you told me a couple, who traces their ancestry back to the Hatfields and McCoys, found the body of the suspected Kentucky ...

In fact, every planet—and every moon—in the solar system will be in the sky during the eclipse. However, that doesn’t mean you’ll see them all. Contrary to what you might have read ...

So far, searches for the hypothetical Planet Nine have yielded no such world. There are many possible reasons for this, one ...

A rare six-planet solar system, unchanged for billions of years, has been discovered 100 light-years from Earth. The planets are all ‘sub-Neptunes’, meaning they are smaller than our Neptune ...

ISRO Venus Orbiter Mission, a Rs 1,236cr project, will explore Venus's environment & understand its transformation from a ...

Computer simulations of the gravitational interactions of solar system bodies suggest that a hypothetical Earth-like planet explains all of those anomalies. It would need to be around 1.5–3 ...

According to the experts, the mysterious objects could be essential for a better understanding of the formation of the solar ...

Gradually they got larger and larger, sweeping up all the leftover dust, until they grew into the planets we recognise today.' The hot, rocky material near the centre of the solar system was sculpted ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they're streaming through the universe, doing their own thing," said researcher Sarah Geller.

The planets in the Solar System are all different but we can divide them into groups based on their common features. There are two ice giants (Uranus and Neptune) which are so far from the Sun ...