Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking ...

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

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

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

University of Iowa researchers found in a new study that images of Earth that kindle "blue marble awe" could create more favorable views of renewable energy and the environment.

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Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

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

Getty Images The different orbital speeds of the planets in our Solar System means several of them can occasionally line up in the same part of the sky at the same time (Credit: Getty Images ...