The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

A new study in astrophysics has found why some planets’ paths have certain peculiar features. The formation of the solar ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are all visible after sunset, but social media claims about it being a rare "planetary ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth ...

We study the ~4.5 billion year history of the terrestrial planets of our solar system, from the stellar synthesis of the elements of which they comprise through their accretion and re-organisation by ...

Six planets will be in alignment this weekend, with four of them shining bright in one sweeping view. What to know about the planet parade.