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

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

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

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

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...