Most of us learned the basics of our solar system in school. Eight planets, one sun, some moons, a couple of asteroid belts.

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...

Earth’s earliest chapter is mostly gone. Rocks from the planet’s first few billion years have been eroded, buried, recycled, ...

As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the same that are ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

The solar system’s history is steeped in mystery, with suggestions of ancient chaos possibly casting out enormous planets.

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

A village in Kent is home to what is thought to be the world's largest scale model of the solar system and beyond, created to ...

The jokes write themselves. The post NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System ...

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Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...