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

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

The planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

People will be able to see a rare sight at the end of this month when all seven other planets in our solar system line up in the night sky. For the last few weeks six of the planets have been ...

Our Solar System is simple—one star, planets orbiting around it. But what happens in a system with multiple stars? Scientists ...

turning this into a planetary parade of all seven planets in our solar system other than Earth. It will be difficult to see them all since Saturn, Mercury and Neptune will be quite close to the ...

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

Most of the information we have about planets beyond our solar system (exoplanets) comes from looking at dips in starlight as these planets pass in front of their host star. This technique can ...

“This discovery reshapes our understanding of how planets acquired their ingredients.” How MVEs Went Missing Previously, many scientists believed that MVEs were diminished on Earth because they never ...

Seven planets—Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars—will line up in February. On February 28, this alignment will be most noticeable globally. It is not just within our solar ...