Jupiter is not only the largest in the solar system, but is so humongous that it's more than twice as massive as the other planets combined. The gas giant is about 11 times wider than Earth alone ...

The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) is a pivotal but mysterious chapter in our solar system’s history, marked by a suspected ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their ...

I t is often remarked upon that the distribution of rings and moons around the giant planets of the Solar System – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune – are themselves like miniature solar systems.

(An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system.) GPI was installed on the 8-meter Gemini South Telescope in Chile in 2013, and its science operation began in 2014.

Scientists from the University of St Andrews studied cosmic objects that are comparable to giant planets, but don’t orbit ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 ...