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

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

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

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

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

Our solar system consists of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as countless asteroids and comets, that are gravitationally bound to the Sun.

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

This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ... New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

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

Solaris promises to be a major platform for education and research, with a particular focus on academic research into the Sun ...