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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have found new evidence that a mysterious ninth planet may be hiding at the edge of the solar system - rewriting what we know about the cosmos again. An international team from Taiwan, ...

OUR Solar System used to have an extra planet that ‘escaped’, according to new research. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science are claiming there was a third ‘ice giant’ between Uranus ...

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 ...

A new planet has been discovered orbiting a distant star - the smallest yet detected outside our own Solar System. The mini-world, the size of the Moon, is described as hot and barren and thought to ...