Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

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

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet. The ...

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

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

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

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Starting up again Saturday, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. The planetary alignment, or a ...