Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) would bring us from a geocentric universe to the heliocentric one, offering a very familiar, if incomplete, picture of our solar system.

Jupiter may have swept through the early solar system like a wrecking ball, destroying a first generation of inner planets before retreating into its current orbit, according to a new study published ...

Our sun may have a companion that disturbs comets from the edge of the solar system — a giant planet with up to four times the mass of Jupiter, researchers suggest.

But it is the diagram that he draws at the beginning of the book that captures in a simple image his revolutionary new idea: it is the Sun that is at the centre of the Solar System, not the Earth.

A diagram showing the heliosphere sheilding the solar system from the dense and cold conditions of the interstellar medium. (Image credit: Southwest Research Institute) ...

Pieces of a distant asteroid have helped reveal more about the early life of our Solar System, according to scientists. Researchers have used samples of an asteroid to learn more about how the ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond Neptune, it orbits the sun every 25,000 years.

It could also change our understanding of comets as a whole, and help explain the intense outbursts we saw with comet 29P/Schwassmann—Wachmann as it passed through the inner solar system.