The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

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The solar system consists of stars, the Sun, 8 planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. It orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph.

Imagine setting off on a road trip that doesn’t just take you through charming towns, but through an entire solar system – ...

The planets and moons then all rotate in the same direction. But only a few moons in our solar system were likely created this way. Scientists predict that Jupiter's and Saturn's inner moons ...