Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

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

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

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

James Webb Space Telescope captures HH 30’s disc, revealing dust movement, jets, and planetary formation processes.

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

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

A potential record-breaking exoplanet system, traveling at 1.2M mph, may be the first of its kind ever identified.

In a humorous take, the solar system is imagined with desi moms giving advice to their planetary children. From Mercury being ...

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...