The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

The coldest planet in the Solar System is Uranus, which is surprisingly colder than Neptune due to its unique internal heat ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

The sun was heading into a long slumber, but started waking up in 2018, with high solar activity and fluctuating cycles that ...

Earth will move between Saturn and the sun this weekend, offering prime views of Saturn in what's known as "opposition." Here's what to know.

September is a special month for the planet as it reaches opposition. This means Earth will find itself in between Saturn and ...

One of the boldest dreams in modern astronomy is the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. These exoplanets ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from. The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the ...

Discover Our Solar System Through Detailed 3D Models Forget dusty textbooks and flat diagrams. We’re talking about ...