A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies. On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets ...

Astronomers have discovered 85 possible exoplanets outside the Solar System which could potentially sustain life after ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, ...

New research sheds light on F-type stars. Could these hot and massive stars be the key to finding habitable planets and ...

The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old. Astronomers believe that roughly 100 million years into its existence, the planets first began to form in a rotating, flat cloud of gas ...

Most astronomers would love to find a planet, but Mike Brown may be the only one proud of having killed one. Thanks to his research, Pluto, the solar system’s ninth planet, was removed from the ...

Now a new theory suggests a two- to 50-Jupiter-mass object passing through the solar system could be the cause. The evolution of the orbits of the planets is a complex process. Initially ...

Despite the system being the best-studied planetary system outside of our own solar ... atmospheres on its planets has proven challenging. That is the result of the unusual characteristics of ...