A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

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

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is set launch in October to explore the habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system ...

The night sky on Tuesday will treat us to a partial lunar eclipse during a supermoon. It’s an astronomical wonder that almost ...

This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

Google Maps in Space lets you "walk" the surface of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other entities in the Solar System, as well as ...

In addition, our solar system as well as all of the others ... he thought it was an object with three parts: a planet and two large moons on either side. Not knowing he was seeing a planet with ...

The existence of the hypothetical Planet Nine, believed to be lurking on the fringes of our solar system, is being questioned by new astrophysical research. This comes after extensive searches have ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...