Nearly a century after Pluto’s discovery, astronomers are still hunting for mysterious planets beyond Neptune - including a ...

If three’s a crowd, then six makes a chorus. That’s the case at least for a rare six-planet solar system whose discovery has wowed astronomers, even in an era when detecting planets around distant ...

Our solar system has eight planets, four of which move in slightly different elliptical orbits which are tilted compared to ...

Astronomers have revealed that the real center of our solar system isn't the sun. Gravity is playing a part in everything. The barycenter is the center.

It's easy to think that Neptune is the coldest planet in the solar system because it is the farthest from the Sun. Astronomers have been puzzled for years by the fact that Uranus is the coldest planet ...

PARIS (AFP) ― The solar system has at least two more planets waiting to be discovered beyond the orbit of Pluto, Spanish and British astronomers said. The official list of planets in our star system ...

NASA scientists have referred to Jupiter as “the biggest and baddest planet in the solar system” — with good reason. It is the largest, most massive body aside from the sun, and its influences are ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

Could you survive a day on every planet in our solar system? Experience the extreme conditions across the planets in a single ...

Originally published on February 15, 2020. This week's question comes to us from Doug Archer on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia. He asks: Do any other planets in our Solar System have offset ...