In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

Planet ‘parades’ are not uncommon. While occasionally spotting 4-5 planets is not unusual, sighting the alignment of all 7 ...

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Once again, the Solar Orbiter has flown close to Venus. This time, however, the probe was deflected in such a way that it is ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

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

Astronomers have peered into an alien planet's atmosphere and found extreme weather unlike anything in the solar system.

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

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