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

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

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

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

If planets had social media accounts, the solar system would showcase a frenzy of unique personalities. Mercury tweets at ...

The planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

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

The rare astronomical event will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn appear at the same time, ...

The article humorously imagines how planets would describe themselves if they were dating profiles. Each planet has a unique ...

This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ... New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...