Claims of a "rare planetary alignment" are misleading; it's just visible planets. A true "golden conjunction" occurs on Sept.

If you needed a sign from the cosmos, the planets are in fact aligning for you this evening. ValleyCentral spoke to Christian ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

Tonight and throughout January, stargazers can see a planetary alignment in the night sky or what some are calling a planetary parade.

A new study in astrophysics has found why some planets’ paths have certain peculiar features. The formation of the solar ...

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...

An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.

A nearby star that may host a planet or two could provide a clue about whether planets orbiting the smallest stars can ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

He also cautioned that because the comet is so close to the sun, it’s not wise to use binoculars ... making it seem like the planet has disappeared, he told USA TODAY, adding that there may ...