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

The eight major planets of our Solar System orbit the Sun in the same flat plane ... Here's how it affected her body. Nasa ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many ...

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

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...