The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

If you’re looking for a way to fill an evening this month with something wonderous, look no further than the night sky above ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth.

This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an asteroid belt, containing thousands of huge rocks, dwarf planets and comets. Our solar system ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may ...

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term habitability.

Related: Giant 'kidney beans' spotted in Mars satellite images could point to signs of water and life Using computer models of the four outer planets ... through the inner solar system, the ...

Imagine setting off on a road trip that doesn’t just take you through charming towns, but through an entire solar system – ...