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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

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

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

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

February will be an awe-inspiring month for astronomy enthusiasts who will be able to the see the solar system's planets ...

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

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

The rare astronomical event will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn appear at the same time, ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...