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

This novel model challenges existing notions of how the solar system came to look the way it does today. The solar system's giant planets are famous for their many moons. Saturn currently leads ...

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

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

The iconic feature likely formed at least 190 years ago, making it the longest-lived vortex known in the solar system. A new ...

An MIT study suggests that primordial black holes could be dark matter and might cause detectable wobbles in Mars' orbit.

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

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." ...

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

So, he decides to make a 3D model of the whole galaxy ... the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and are remnants from the early solar system that never coalesced into planets. Their composition ...

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.