When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

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

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Reintroducing Hawaii's sacred crow, how desert ants find their way, pterosaurs paddle-like tails, and how gophers rebuild ...

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, because they all originally formed from the same disc of debris around the sun. The line the sun traces across the ...

Referred to as a planetary parade or alignment, this celestial event occurs when multiple planets in our solar system appear ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

Students were taught about different seasons, phases of the moon, and other out of this world lessons by Dunlap, who travels ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.