One possibility is that a rogue planet, about 1–2 times Earth’s mass, influenced their paths early in the solar system's ...

You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system.

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system. It is the closest to the Sun and has extreme temperature changes between ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The 7 fastest planets in the solar system, ranked by their orbital speeds around the Sun, are as follows: Mercury is the fastest planet in our solar system, orbiting the sun at an average speed of 47.

The solar system has nine planets, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union declared Pluto a dwarf planet, making the ...

The Subaru Telescope has discovered new objects beyond the known Kuiper Belt, suggesting a more complex structure at the edge ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

It would depend on a lot, say our readers, from how big it was to the route it took - but it could have significant ...