STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

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

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

However, if a large galaxy or cluster of galaxies passes between our ... Getty Images The different orbital speeds of the ...

The new exoplanet, Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b has never been seen before and is now officially being called a "Super-Venus." ...

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

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

With a lining up of planets and distant galaxies visible to the naked eye, there is a lot to see in the skies in February.

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

We will never get an image of the Milky Way from above, but M81 or Bode's galaxy is a good stand-in – and now is a great time ...