Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

A village in Kent is home to what is thought to be the world's largest scale model of the solar system and beyond, created to ...

(Ianm35/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Solar System is one of the comforting constants of human existence. No matter what else we have going on, the planets will continue to whirl about the Sun, making ...

Which solar system model is best? For as long as humans could look up at the night sky, we’ve been fascinated with the stars. How far away are they? Where did they come from? What secrets do they hide ...

For the first time since 2008, two new planets are being added to one of northern Maine's most famous — and scientifically accurate — roadside attractions. Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the ...

A new machine learning model has predicted that there are 44 Earth-like planets in other star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, with researchers from Switzerland claiming that the algorithm at the core ...

Our solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The ...

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this could reside in the planets in our solar system, say researchers at the ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...