When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... interplanetary ... Dec. 9, 2024 — Dust storms on ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

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

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter ...

NASA has shared sky watching tips for February as the planets will shine bright throughout the month as they did in January.

Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...

You'll be able to easily see four planets in the February evening sky ... Mercury — passes superior conjunction with the sun on Feb. 9 and enters the evening sky. By Feb. 19, only 9 degrees ...