The early solar system may have been far more chaotic than we ever imagined. A new study published in Icarus suggests that ...

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to dramatically expand the search for planets beyond our solar system.

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of magnetic worlds beyond the solar system, representing a major step forward ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets outside our solar system may be magnetic. Using ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

Astronomers in a recent breakthrough have found seven exoplanets, potentially harbouring magnetic fields, similar to Earth ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...