Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

As observations of the motions of the planets became more detailed, the descriptions of the Solar System had to get very complex in order to keep the Earth at the centre. Nicolas Copernicus (1473 ...

There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond the eighth planet Neptune. The tantalizing prospect of a ninth ...