Mysterious, fascinating, and utterly mesmerising, here we take a look at some of the most inspiring images of stars, planets, and the Moon taken from around the world. Taken just after sunset ...

The relative size of the inner planets of our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

The two most distant planets in our solar system look more like each other than was previously thought, experts have found. Many people think of Neptune as being a rich blue colour, and Uranus ...

Fellipe Abreu/Getty Images The planets are 20% to 30% the mass of Earth and make a full orbit around the sun in days, according to the paper. They are likely rocky planets, rather than gas.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...