Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies offering crucial insights into the solar system’s formation.

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our Solar System well organized and ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the ... close to the sun to be readily visible with Venus not far behind, leaving Jupiter, Mars and Uranus to populate ...

The idea that Saturn's rings are young seemed very strange in the context of the solar system's long evolutionary history." ...

There's not much debate that rogue planets exist ... stellar encounters and in the subsequent evolution of a multi-planet solar system should be common and supports the evidence for a very ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

Test your knowledge on our solar system, from the biggest and smallest planets to the behemoth mountain ... planetary club back in… actually, we're not telling you the year, because that's ...