The Solar System is a vast and varied landscape offering an array of planetary and moonscape phenomena unlike anything found ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining in the night sky at once this week ... Mercury and Saturn will have sunk below the horizon, with Neptune and Venus following shortly after. The main thing ...

Neptune is an ice giant, composed primarily of hydrogen, helium, and methane, with a hot, dense fluid of icy materials above a small rocky core. Neptune has 14 known moons and at least five main rings ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, Mercury will join the fun, with all seven of our planetary neighbors visible ...

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

After dusk on Friday night, seven planets are expected to align in the night sky. But you'll need binoculars or a telescope ...

Stargazers are in for a treat this week as a planetary parade is set to take place - just a month after the last planetary spectacle.

Sep. 25, 2024 — Researchers examined Neptunian exoplanets -- these planets share similar characteristics to our own Neptune, but orbit outside of our solar system. Scientists discovered a new ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

To locate Saturn, Neptune and Mercury, which were dimmer and closer ... Venus and Earth — align within 3.6 degrees in the sky every 39.6 years. For all of the solar system's eight planets to align as ...