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 ...

OUR Solar System used to have an extra planet that ‘escaped’, according to new research. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science are claiming there was a third ‘ice giant’ between Uranus ...

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.

NASA’S massive space telescope has found a bunch of planets that could well be suitable for life. Experts have got their first glimpse of seven planets orbiting their Sun, known as TRAPPIST-1. Please ...

In the northern hemisphere five planets can be seen by the naked eye, and Uranus and Neptune with a telescope or binoculars Every planet in the solar system was visible in the night sky simultaneously ...

Astronomers claim to have discovered a new ninth planet in our Solar System. Planet Nine, also known as Planet X, is a hypothetical celestial object that would distantly orbit our Sun – but there is ...

Scientists have predicted that there could be large planets the size of Jupiter or Uranus likely trapped at the edge of our solar system, much farther than the hypothetical planet X. Such a planet ...

Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the edge of our solar system. So many unexplored secrets still lie at the ...

The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist's illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away (NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble)) For ...