For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

according to the Museum of Science. Stargazing apps can also help you locate the planets. All of our solar system’s planets won’t parade again until around March 31 or April 1, 2036.

Our grade school understanding of the Solar System may not take into account the constant discoveries being made in our ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

Now, however, a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server by researchers from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the American Museum of Natural History ... the gravitational pull of our solar ...

At 4.5 billion years old, the Imilac meteorite dates back to the beginning of our solar system. Dr Caroline Smith, Head of Earth Sciences Collections at the Museum, sheds light on the secrets the ...

Before the Earth and Moon, there was a proto-Earth and Theia. Museum planetary science researcher Prof Sara Russell explains the origins of Earth's closest companion. Our solar system's outermost ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many more are waiting to be discovered? Faint signatures detected by the ...