The Sun and its planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune The different planets have different properties and conditions. In general, as the distance from the ...

The Subaru Telescope has discovered new objects beyond the known Kuiper Belt, suggesting a more complex structure at the edge ...

The discovery of mysterious objects beyond the known Kuiper Belt could point to a complex structure at the edge of our Solar ...

Astronomers say they've found an "interstellar tunnel" near our solar system that potentially leads to the vicinity of other ...

The Kuiper Belt extends from the orbit of Neptune, which around 30 astronomical units from the Sun, out to around 50. The New Horizons spacecraft is travelling deeper into the Solar System and is ...

Data sent back by the two Voyager spacecraft have shed new light on the structure of the Solar System. Forty-two years after they were launched, the spacecraft are still going strong and exploring ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

But there's something really weird about Venus. Though the hellish world has beautifully preserved impact craters on its ...

Leonardo David is a writer and energy consultant who has worked on projects funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. An electromechanical engineer, he has written about solar energy and the ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects - planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets - in orbit around it. The Sun and ...