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

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

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

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

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe has spotted a habitable planet roughly one astronomical ...

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

NASA’s Europa Clipper is set launch in October to explore the habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system ...

The night sky on Tuesday will treat us to a partial lunar eclipse during a supermoon. It’s an astronomical wonder that almost ...

In addition, our solar system as well as all of the others ... he thought it was an object with three parts: a planet and two large moons on either side. Not knowing he was seeing a planet with ...

Google Maps in Space lets you "walk" the surface of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other entities in the Solar System, as well as ...

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