The solar system’s largest and smallest planets meet in the evening sky, standing 2° apart shortly after sunset.

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

Earth. It’s about 10 times more massive than Earth, and orbits in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star 2475 light-years away ...

Enjoy a close conjunction of the solar system’s smallest and largest planet just days before the Full Strawberry Moon this ...

NASA's latest discoveries about Jupiter have revealed astonishing new insights into the largest planet in our solar system.

During the month of June you will be able to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter in the sky at different times.

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, led by Queen’s University Belfast, have revealed that millions of new solar ...

In a few days, the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are to be presented. Simulations are now raising ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...