Astronomers have discovered 85 possible exoplanets outside the Solar System which could potentially sustain life after ...

Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical harmony.

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

New images of the Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched planet in ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." ...

In the heat of the Mojave Desert, the world's largest solar generator is utilizing advanced heliostat technology to produce ...

But the formation process of multi-planet systems, like our own Solar System, is still poorly understood. The best example object to study multi-planet system formation is a young star known as ...

The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old. Astronomers believe that roughly 100 million years into its existence, the planets first began to form in a rotating, flat cloud of gas ...

Now a new theory suggests a two- to 50-Jupiter-mass object passing through the solar system could be the cause. The evolution of the orbits of the planets is a complex process. Initially ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

In fact, every planet—and every moon—in the solar system will be in the sky during the eclipse. However, that doesn’t mean you’ll see them all. Contrary to what you might have read ...