New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

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

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

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

New research has revealed that Hot Jupiters do not always push away or destroy nearby planets during their migration. This ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

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

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.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

We also got important quality-of-life updates like inventory sorting in the Worlds Part 2 update.