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

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

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

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system's formative stages and played a critical role in planetary formation.

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

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

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.

While this parade of planets look to our eyes to be huddled in the evening sky, they are of course spread out across a vast chasm of space across the solar system, separated from each other by ...

Baker said that there are other astronomical events that may be more interesting than the parade of planets. Baker said Mars ...

This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ... New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans ...