“The problem is that the sun will be illuminating the sky ... rid of all your field of view,” he said. The order in which the planets will align on Sunday is Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars ...

Test your knowledge on our solar system, from the biggest and smallest planets to the behemoth mountain on Mars.

The orbits of the planets around the sun have been the source for many a scientific debate. Their current orbital properties ...

The Webb telescope has confirmed a controversial discovery made over 20 years ago with the Hubble Space Telescope.

New observations show that planets forming in protoplanetary disks like that around PDS 70 can trigger the formation of ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

putting it opposite the sun in Earth’s skies and offering unparalleled nighttime views. Some telescopes are better suited to observe planets than others. In this guide, we've picked out models ...