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

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a potential second Kuiper Belt, expanding the boundaries of our solar system. Here's ...

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

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

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

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

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...

The discovery may help scientists understand when and where planets like super-Earths can form in our galaxy, and help ...

Astronomers have discovered a hidden feature in exoplanet distribution that could explain the absence of so-called ...

According to a new study, if a primordial black hole passed within a few hundred million miles of Mars, it could shift the planet's orbit by about a meter -- causing a "wobble." ...