Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun.

This period — when the building materials for planets disappeared — is thought to be a pivotal point, when the general design of the solar system was locked in. These smaller moons have ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned ...

If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers believe it ...

The German mounting system supplier said users can adjust the layout, add or remove modules, and select the suitable substructure. The tool then automatically generates a bill of materials and ...

Jupiter is not only the largest in the solar system, but is so humongous that it's more than twice as massive as the other planets combined. The gas giant's influential place in shaping our solar ...

A new type of semitransparent organic solar cell (ST-OSC) with an efficiency of more than 10% has been developed, bringing us closer to a future where windows and mobile display screens could function ...

This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Solar System is the name given to the part of space that surrounds the Sun. Even though it is bigger than ...