The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

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

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars ...

While this parade of planets look to our eyes to be huddled in the evening sky, they are of course spread out across a vast chasm of space across the solar system, separated from each other by ...

February will be an awe-inspiring month for astronomy enthusiasts who will be able to the see the solar system's planets ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Baker said that there are other astronomical events that may be more interesting than the parade of planets. Baker said Mars ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

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