Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy.

We search for extrasolar planets and determine their properties. We develop models that describe the atmospheres of the planets. We want to find out what makes a planet favourable to life. Through ...

The discovery of some of these dwarf planets has given us reasons to believe that something else might be lurking on the outskirts of the solar system. It's no coincidence that astronomers spend ...

Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...

The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1. Makemake is one of many icy worlds that orbit the Sun past Neptune.

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far ... The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in ...

Now European Southern Observatory (ESO) thinks one of the objects floating along the main belt might be the smallest dwarf planet in our solar system — an asteroid known as Hygiea. Hygiea isn ...