Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

It doesn’t happen often that astronomers manage to find the universe in the process of creating planets. Yet, in a moment as rare as it is revelatory, a global team has directly observed the first ...

A village in Kent is home to what is thought to be the world's largest scale model of the solar system and beyond, created to ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...