Planets in retrograde tend to get a bad reputation, and while it’s true that they can cause mishaps, they’re also important opportunities for reflection.

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labelled as Planet X, prominent astronomers ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our ...

Initially, it was classified as a comet, but the object's behavior and composition did not match any known comet models. What sets ‘Oumuamua apart is its high reflectivity, unusual elongated or ...

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this could reside in the planets in our solar system, say researchers at the ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...