Don't put your binoculars away just yet, the planet parade continues through February. Here's which planets will be visible ...

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

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

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

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

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 ...