Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

An object that appears to be from beyond our Solar System has been spotted hurtling towards the Sun, which if confirmed would ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown ...

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...