The European Space Agency has backed a £400 million pound mission to study extra-solar planets, led by UCL (University College London). A key objective of the mission is to look for signs of life ...

Learn about the different planets in our Solar System. Find out their size, temperature and distance from the Sun in this Scotland Second Level Science article.

These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our ...

New images from the Hubble telescope show an extrasolar entity as it hurtles through our solar system at speeds of more than 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h). New simulations suggest that up to four of ...

How the hunt for a 'missing planet' revealed asteroids in our solar system Following a hunch that there might be a missing planet in between Mars and Jupiter, early 19th-century astronomers ...

Solar Systems 100 Times Smaller Than Ours Are Possible – Thanks To Rogue Planets Free-floating planets might not travel alone through the galaxy. Dr. Alfredo Carpineti ...

These are the newest class of solar system's inhabitants the Dwarf Planets: Huamea, Makemake and, yes, Pluto. With the discovery of the KPOs and, in particular, the KPO Dwarf Planets, Pluto lost ...