A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

Aside from Earth, no planet in the solar system captures our imagination quite like Mars. The Red Planet is one of the few ...

An international research team with Swiss participation has discovered an exoplanet with a special property. According to the ...

Despite sweetening the pot by grandfathering existing rooftop solar systems, opposition to tinkering with net metering ...

The fastest planetary winds ever found are tearing across a distant gas giant.

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

Here’s what to look forward to and how to watch. Planetary alignment is when several planets gather closely on one side of the sun simultaneously, according to Starwalk.space. This is ...