Our solar system’s origin story spans billions of years and involves clouds of gas, cosmic collisions, and planetary ...

For decades, our solar system was thought to have nine planets, with Pluto considered the smallest and farthest. But in 2006, ...

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might still be nine if some astronomers are correct about an as-yet ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Seven planets grace the sky at the end of February in what’s known as a planetary parade, though some will be difficult to spot with the naked eye. Is there life after extinction?

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up in the night sky at once this week. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a ...

Beginning in late February, seven planets will align in the night sky. But Uranus and Neptune may require a telescope to see. Mars SKY AT Viewed from above the solar system, the seven planets will ...