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

The solar system is portrayed as a dynamic, gossip-fueled family, with each planet offering snide comments about one another, ...

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

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

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

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

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

Each planet in the solar system is characterized as different cricket team players, with unique behaviors and skills. Earth ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

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

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...