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.

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 rogue star may explain why the outer solar system is so odd. Scientists have a new explanation for Pluto's tilted orbit and other idiosyncrasies.

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 ...