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

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, the jets flash for around one minute, flinging charged particles at an ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

The scientists think that the yet unseen ninth planet may be a “rogue,” which entered out solar system not at its inception, but long after the fact. The theory of Planet Nine was born out of ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets ... theoretical astrophysics has long been to figure out how the orbits later became out-of-round and tilted ...

Why haven’t we seen Planet Nine before now? It’s thought that this object is far, far further out in the solar system than the rest of the planets – orbiting the Sun billions of miles out.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

However, there are several easy steps to take to ensure you’re getting the most out of your solar panels in winter. Whether you’re already using a solar panel system or researching things to ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...