The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The universe is 13.8 billion years old ... to speak to these results — which are near Earth, inside of our solar system, and are limited on what they can see by all the stuff in our solar ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Caribbean sounds help bring the Solar System to life and make space education more inclusive.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Astronomers discover a network of cosmic tunnels linking our solar system to distant galaxies, revealing a dynamic and ...

The universe is full of icy worlds that scientists ... We’ve found plenty of ice in our solar system, but no consistent liquid water is known on any moon or planetary surface aside from Earth.

It was controversial as accepted wisdom at the time (supported by the church) was that Earth was at the centre of the universe. Create your own masterpiece of the solar system. You could paint it ...