His IQ ranked from 160 to 200. He is best known for his heliocentric model of the solar system, which placed the sun at the centre rather than the Earth.

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

By orbiting the Sun outside of the Solar System’s orbital plane, the spacecraft has captured the first clear images of the Sun’s south pole. According to the ESA, these observations (and other ...

Astronomers have confirmed that a recently spotted object is an interstellar visitor, and appears to have come from the ...