(Ianm35/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Solar System is one of the comforting constants of human existence. No matter what else ...

We usually think of our Solar System as a calm, well-organized family of planets, but a new study suggests its early days may ...

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

Our solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The ...

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune did not always have their current positions in the solar system. According to the ...

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 ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

Looking at the Solar System, Jupiter and Uranus both have plenty of irregular moons. In supercomputer simulations, the ...

Researchers have developed the Smaller Than Earth Habitability Model (STEHM) to assess which planets can maintain ...

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this could reside in the planets in our solar system, say researchers at the ...

The transition from cluster to stream offers an extraordinary opportunity for exoplanetary science. Inside a dense cluster, ...