DALLASOver there by the dome is poor old Pluto, everybody's favourite ... Dallas shows an orrery – a mechanical model of the solar system. Before the 17th century most people believed in a ...

However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our solar system. The moon is probably even older than assumed and was carved out of the earth only 65 million years after the ...

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

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 ...

"These objects really could be anywhere in the solar system at any given time." One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her ... They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar system's orbital architecture may have evolved differently ...