Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.

Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

While our solar system is a fascinating place on its own, exoplanets are even more of a mystery. And one exoplanet in ...

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

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

The eight major planets in our Solar System orbit the sun on the same flat plane but at vastly different speeds. Mercury, being the closest to the sun, completes an orbit in only 88 days ...

The eight major planets in our Solar System orbit the sun on the same flat plane but at vastly different speeds. Mercury, being the closest to the sun, completes an orbit in only 88 days, compared ...

But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might still be nine if some astronomers are correct about an as-yet ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – was spotted by Oxford University scientists orbiting in the ‘habitable zone’ of a nearby star similar to our sun, 20 light-years away ...