There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?
Astronomers are tracking strange orbital patterns in the outer Solar System that suggest a massive unseen planet may exist ...
A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...
Astronomers have been actively hunting for a ninth planet in the solar system for almost a decade. But a new study has ...
Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed—Earth's solar system and its planets looked more ...
Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...
What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...
Astronomers have discovered a distant dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune — a frozen world so far from the Sun that it ...