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

Our solar system is probably on the mild side compared with what happens elsewhere. You probably need that mildness in order to have a habitable planet.” The Nice model is a hypothesis ...

The model could be of specific value in understanding the growth of the solar system's giant planets. Scientists have a fairly good understanding of how the rocky inner planets of the solar system ...

Smaller equipment is all that is needed to observe brighter 'satellites' or moons; orbiting around other planets in the solar system ... Celestron's C8 Model is an example of this.

The planets Uranus and Neptune are the farthest away from us in the solar system, so scientists don’t really know much about ...

So far, searches for the hypothetical Planet Nine have yielded no such world. There are many possible reasons for this, one ...

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

Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the Earth at the centre of it. As observations of the motions of the planets became more detailed, the descriptions of the Solar ...

"This would explain why the outer planets of our solar system have two different types of moons ... Until now, there was no ...

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

Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive "dark matter" that makes up a quarter of all matter in the ...

Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) recently installed a permanent Voyage Mark II Model Solar System exhibit on campus as ...