The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and then the possible ...

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

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru ...

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

New proposed space missions, led by the University of Leicester, will study stellar impacts on planets and Earth’s ...

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

According to the experts, the mysterious objects could be essential for a better understanding of the formation of the solar ...

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 ...

Flybys of primordial black holes may occur once a decade. Tweaks to the orbits of planets and GPS satellites could give away their presence.

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they're streaming through the universe, doing their own thing," said researcher Sarah Geller.

Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets ( Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech.August ...

Brown, who is among the co-discoverers of Sedna, told the publication, “Some of our earlier hypotheses, before we realized ...