How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

A new international project promises to “revolutionise” our knowledge of the solar system through discovering millions of its ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

The Tianwen-2 mission seeks to reveal how asteroids have formed and what they can tell us about the birth of the solar system ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet called TOI-6894b, orbiting a star that should be far too small to have formed it.

A group of astronomers from across the globe, led by Queen’s University Belfast, have revealed that millions of new solar ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

The astronomical records of imperial China are some of the most comprehensive archives in the history of science, spanning ...

Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets.