Astronomers have captured the sharpest-ever images of infant planets forming around a distant star, revealing unexpected ...

The composite image shows seven of the solar system's planets from Earth, after sundown on Feb. 22. | Credit: Josh Dury A ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

The Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) has provided some of the clearest images ever taken of planets forming around a ...

Experts have claimed it could be the first time all planets including Earth have been captured in a single image.

For example, you’ll need binoculars or a small telescope to see Uranus and Neptune—so, while the seven planets will be there, ...

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but at what point is a rock too small to be a moon?

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...