NASA Scientists discover a fast-moving star and planetary system moving double our solar system speed through the Milky Way.

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars ...

February will be an awe-inspiring month for astronomy enthusiasts who will be able to the see the solar system's planets ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions ... to the formation of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of planetary growth in the solar ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...