Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the indisputable frontrunner for having the most moons in our solar system.

There are also moons in the solar system, that is objects orbiting around the planets. In fact just over 180 moons at the last count. And some of those moons are so large that if they were ...

"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 ...

Our solar system contains a central star with eight planets, dwarf planets, moons, comets and asteroids.

Here's how to spot it and why it happens. The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, this gigantic cloud was transformed into our Sun. The processes that followed gave rise to the solar system, complete with eight planets, 181 moons, and countless ...

Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer called "Pleiades," scientists have discovered yet another spiral structure on the edge of our solar system. The spiral is composed of billions of icy ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...