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

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

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

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

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

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

The article humorously imagines how planets would describe themselves if they were dating profiles. Each planet has a unique ...

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

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...