Otherworlds artist Michael Benson explores the 'alchemy' he uses to transform space agency data into true-colour images of our solar system. Michael Benson's images combine art and science to explore ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

ranging from irregular town-size space rocks to massive rounded bodies that are potentially big enough to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we ...

This journey through a dense region of space could have compressed the heliosphere, the protective bubble surrounding our solar system, and increased the influx of interstellar dust, potentially ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...