The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Hello Games announced the latest No Man's Sky update, Worlds Part II, a free download available on all platforms that the ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

Now in its ninth year, the overwhelmingly expansive sci-fi survival sim No Man’s Sky is transforming yet again. Another ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

Building solar systems on the water reduces land use. However, floating PV also has its downsides – in the literal sense.