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

Mars' unique topography, with low-lying northern plains and elevated southern highlands, is linked to internal magnetic ...

“Saturday evening, January 18: Venus and Saturn will appear nearest to each other. As evening twilight ends at 6:15 p.m. EST, ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

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

The concept of Planet X, or Planet Nine, has captivated astronomers for decades. This hypothetical planet, theorized to be ...

Every couple of days it will scan the night sky with the largest camera in ... notion that there is a ninth planet lurking out in the darkness of our Solar System beyong Neptune.

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...

Astronomers discover a network of cosmic tunnels linking our solar system to distant galaxies, revealing a dynamic and ...

The solar system consists of 8 planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Each planet has its own unique characteristics, such as size, composition ...