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

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in elliptical trajectories, and they are all different in size, composition, ...

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 ...

PETALING JAYA: The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to Earth's rotation, which is moving from west to east on its ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...