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 ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...