8 planets orbit the Sun. The closest are the four rocky planets, the remaining gas planets inhabit deeper space. The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids ...

8 planets orbit the Sun. The closest are the four rocky planets, the remaining gas planets inhabit deeper space. The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Our solar system used to have nine planets ... “In terms of scientific viability, we know that there are eight planets already, so it’s not so crazy to have another planet within the same ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

In this more realistic Sun + eight-planet system, we find that the above structure of chaos for the outer planets becomes uniformly chaotic for almost all planets and almost all initial conditions, ...