From the scorching surface of Mercury to the icy edges of Neptune, our planetary neighborhood is full of wonders. The order ...

Beyond the familiar planets lies a fascinating frontier filled with icy worlds, mysterious orbits, and cosmic curiosities.

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

WISPIT 2b was detected as part of a five-year observational research project during which the international team sought to ...

'Toddler' solar system found: Cosmic twin could reveal our beginnings - and suggests planets like Earth may be common University of Cambridge researchers have found a twin of our young sun It has ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so. Until ...

The biggest issue, however, is that the outer Solar System just hasn’t been observed for long enough. For example, object 2017 OF201 has an orbital period of about 24,000 years.

The Solar System may hold 10 or 11 planets, scientists have predicted after running new computer models on the data which led to the announcement of Planet Nine. In January, astronomers Professor ...