New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

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

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

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

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

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

If planets had social media accounts, the solar system would showcase a frenzy of unique personalities. Mercury tweets at ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...