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

Because they're surrounded by foul-smelling gases that are incompatible with the human sense of smell, living on the surface ...

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

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

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

Our universe is always being explored, and a recent discovery was made about the catchily named exoplanet HD 189733 b. This ...

Flybys of primordial black holes may occur once a decade. Tweaks to the orbits of planets and GPS satellites could give away their presence.

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

According to the experts, the mysterious objects could be essential for a better understanding of the formation of the solar ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

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