An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Sep. 12, 2022 — Strange diamonds from an ancient dwarf planet in our solar system may have formed shortly after the dwarf planet collided with a large asteroid about 4.5 billion years ago ...

Find out where we fit in the solar system, with the Super Movers Crew who have a special song and routine from the TARDIS and get your Key Stage 2 pupils moving.

Launched on September 5th, 1977, the spacecraft reached Neptune, the outer sentinel of the Solar System, over a decade later. An artist's impression of the Voyager 1 space probe flying past Saturn ...

The Hayabusa2 spacecraft visited the asteroid in 2018 and 2019, then returned to Earth with 5.4 grams of the space rock in 2020 (SN: 12/7/20).Scientists examined those samples in the lab in ways ...

Our solar system is over 4.5 billion years old Science Photo Library/Alamy Astronomers have re-calculated the age of our solar system, and found it is very slightly older than we thought – 1.1 ...

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet and the solar system seem like a lot to fit in 4 ...