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

The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and then the possible ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...

Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified previously unknown celestial bodies in the outer Solar System, ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, this gigantic cloud was transformed into our Sun. The processes that followed gave rise to the solar system, complete with eight planets, 181 moons, and countless ...

According to a new study, if a primordial black hole passed within a few hundred million miles of Mars, it could shift the planet's orbit by about a meter -- causing a "wobble." ...

The universe might be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid, scientists say.