The Atlas of Space shows one star, eight planets, ten dwarf planets, moons, comets, asteroids, spacecraft and trans-Neptunian ...

TIMHi, I'm Tim Peake. I'm an astronaut based here at the European Space Agency in Germany, and from December 2015, to June 2016, I spent six months orbiting Earth on the International Space Station.

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

Pluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system, but will that be enough to mend the dwarf planet’s broken heart? Not likely, according to a recent ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A new observatory is set to detect millions of never-before-seen solar system objects, a global group of astronomers led by Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) has said. The brand new facility at NSF–DOE ...