15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar ... system," Ben Rider-Stokes, a post-doctoral researcher at The Open University ...

To engage visitors, the National Planetarium is introducing astronaut suit design and space-themed music competitions ...

CHILD: So how old is our solar system? MADDIE: That’s a great question! Let’s ask an expert. DR BECKY: Hi, I’m Dr Becky and I am a space expert. Now, the solar system and all the planets in ...

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 ...

She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of climate ... than Earth's mass—may have swept through our solar system about 4 billion years in the past.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, pulling data from its Solar Orbiter probe, which it runs with NASA.

Why it's so special: This picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe ... the first and only probe to land in the outer solar system. The probe carried instruments to study ...