Researchers used the CRIRES+ instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to map the weather and composition of WASP-127b.

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Astrophysicists have achieved a major breakthrough by capturing images of exocomet belts around 74 nearby stars. Using the ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

Planetesimal belts, remnants of the planet formation process, hold a wealth of clues about planetary systems beyond our own.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu has returned with a $1 billion sample that could rewrite everything we know about ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

You won't see a majestic line of planets on Jan. 25 the way people on social media promise, but you will see four bright ...

Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical harmony.

The BepiColombo mission successfully completed its sixth flyby of the innermost planet, moving closer to its final goal of ...

Six planets will all be visible at once in the night sky this month, lined up across the sky—but one is set to disappear from view.