Findings could help explain how planets in our own solar system move around the sun Six planets that orbit their star in a coordinated dance have been discovered by scientists, who say the finding ...

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth.

Made up of billions of objects, the Solar System has been studied for generations - but there is still so much to learn about it. Full of celestial bodies orbiting the Sun, the Solar System is roughly ...

On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker ...

Learn how a possible ninth planet, the theoretical Planet X, could have acquired its wide orbit in the outer Solar System — a process that’s also applicable for other planets. There could be a ninth ...

Astronomers have found a unique solar system with six planets moving in harmony, untouched by outside forces since their creation billions of years ago. This discovery, announced on Wednesday, could ...

Researchers have found that if a star flying past our solar system moved Neptune’s orbit by just 0.1 per cent, it would result in pandemonium. A minor shift in the outer planet’s orbit could ...