New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — If you're trying to get a beautiful look at the planets in our solar system, you're in luck. Between February 25 and February 28, all seven planets in our solar system will be ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

There have been questions about a mysterious ninth planet in our solar system for nearly a decade. Pluto was unseated as number nine in 2006. Now, a group of international researchers say they may ...

Astronomers have discovered icy rocks in the outer solar system that seem to defy the laws of physics, suggesting the ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

Over 80% of exoplanetary systems with three or more planets exhibit a "peas-in-a-pod" architecture, characterized by similarly sized planets closely spaced and orbiting near their star. A new study ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think the closer you are to the sun, the hotter they must be. Now that's mostly ...

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