Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Beautiful photos of the six planets aligned in the night sky have emerged online. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and ...

Six planets are still aligned in London skies tonight (Sunday, January 26) and will remain so until about mid-February. So if ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is. A research team has used several telescopes to take images ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Pluto, considered the ninth planet in our solar system until it ... the two bodies then began orbiting each other in a cosmic dance in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit.

Planet X, also called Planet Nine ... miles away from the sun would explain why some objects beyond the Kuiper Belt orbit so strangely. And that day could be soon. Or not, experts told Metro.

These short electromagnetic pulses resemble bird songs; however, they pose a significant threat to the functioning of ...

This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ... compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.