Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...

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

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

Despite the name, a planetary alignment isn’t when the planets get in a row, it’s when a fair few gather on one side of the ...

It seems something extraordinarily large stirred it up. However, the disk of the Solar System is relatively warped, and the orbits of its planets are slightly tilted and elliptical. It is quite ...

The same year that Pluto was ignominiously stripped of its status ... the notion that there is a ninth planet lurking out in the darkness of our Solar System beyong Neptune.

Stargazers who haven't had a chance to check out this month's planet parade will want to look up soon because there's ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

The solar system consists of 8 planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Each planet has its own unique characteristics, such as size, composition ...