We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel .

Twin siblings, twin peaks, twin cities, twin planets... Two earths, one solar system. How would that work?

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Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

IS this what the end of days looks like after the Sun has swallowed Earth up? Fear not, we’ve got some time to go – ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...