(Ianm35/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Solar System is one of the comforting constants of human existence. No matter what else ...

A village in Kent is home to what is thought to be the world's largest scale model of the solar system and beyond, created to ...

We usually think of our Solar System as a calm, well-organized family of planets, but a new study suggests its early days may ...

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune did not always have their current positions in the solar system. According to the ...

Our solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

For the first time since 2008, two new planets are being added to one of northern Maine's most famous — and scientifically accurate — roadside attractions. Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the ...

Looking at the Solar System, Jupiter and Uranus both have plenty of irregular moons. In supercomputer simulations, the ...

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 ...

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions, we have to first understand the process of how stars form. While the composition of gas and dust in a precursor molecular cloud is ...