"It all works like intricate clock gears. Throw more gears into the mix and it all breaks." What would happen if we had an additional planet in our solar system? Not in the fringes like the ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find ...

The first chamber will contain a model of the solar system and the others will be ... It will require a day’s hike to reach its interior gears." The clock will be free to visit, but the number ...

This historic mission aims to “touch the sun,” uncovering secrets about the sun’s atmosphere and its effects on the Earth and solar system. The daring flyby on Christmas Eve is part of a ...

What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be? From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest ...

Now, let’s take a look at this wonderful solar system clockwork ... Out of those pieces, 153 were gears and 1,000 were axles and lift arms. One of the biggest challenges was to have the rings ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet -- a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system -- using ... If this planet were a clock, it wasn't keeping accurate ...

Our solar system passed through a vast wave of gas and dust around 14 million years ago, dimming Earth’s view of the night sky. The wave may even have left traces in our planet’s geological ...

open image in gallery An artist’s impression of Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn on its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system (Getty) It was also a complicated process because ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites ...