Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that the next won’t happen until 2040.

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today.

Other exciting things to keep an eye out for in the night sky this month are bright planets. The planets will continue to put ...

For more information on this year's full moons and biggest ... Venus is another planet that continues dominating the western sky after sunset. Venus and Saturn will have their closest approach ...

However, even some dwarf planets and asteroids have rings, but none of the roughly 300 moons in the solar system have been found to have rings. A detailed simulation to solve this mystery has ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.

Tomorrow night, Mars will have "broken up" the cosy duo. You should be able to see a bright, orange-glowing star to the lower ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Deimos is Mars' outer moon. It's a tiny, irregularly shaped moon and smaller than Mars' other moon, Phobos. Despite being unspectacular, Deimos remains a fascinating mystery. Deimos is one of only ...

Charon and Earth’s moon are both a large fraction of the size of the main body they orbit, which is unlike other smaller moons orbiting planets throughout our solar system. (Pluto has four ...