It’s a common problem: you want to go and visit another planet in the solar system but you’re just not sure of the best way to get there. This space subway map should come in handy, then, as it shows ...

Prepare to feel totally insignificant and small as you check out the wonders of humanity's home star system. Google has mapped the planets using pictures from Nasa and the European Space Agency. WE’VE ...

If it exists, the theorized planet would well explain why otherwise scattered bodies in the outer solar system seem to all make their closest approaches to the sun in the same region of space. Last ...

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

WHETHER or not you believe in life beyond Earth, there are actually a minimum of 100 billion planets in our universe, according to a Nasa study. But how many planets make up our solar system? Please ...

The Solar System is made up of the Sun (our nearest star) and the objects that orbit around it, including planets, asteroids and comets. Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths, and moons ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

There have been questions about a mysterious ninth planet in our solar system for nearly a decade. Pluto was unseated as number nine in 2006. Now, a group of international researchers say they may ...

A spacecraft called Gaia launched by Esa to map the stars in the Milky Way could be repurposed to find planets in the galaxy, say scientists. They say it could be used to find 70,000 worlds outside ...

Other solar systems could have large numbers of planets that are home to alien life, a new study has found. The research suggests that other parts of the universe could be host to numerous planets ...