Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

China plans to launch the Tianwen 2 probe this year, which will carry out a sample return mission from a near-Earth asteroid coded 2016HO3 and then orbit explorations ... and fundamental patterns of ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

Scientists now think that a mysterious object massive enough to have gravitational interactions with the Solar System’s disk and planets flew by billions of years ago and permanently altered their ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own system," scientists said.

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...