Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

She said it's less about seeing the planets in a line straight in front of us, like one behind the other, and more on a line ...

The astronomical linkup is fairly common and can happen at least every year depending on the number of planets.

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Our grade school understanding of the Solar System may not take into account the constant discoveries being made in our ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...