The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned ...

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

The new planetarium show revealed a backwards S-shaped spiral in what's known as the Oort Cloud far beyond Pluto (American Museum of Natural History via AP) Scientists have solved one of the solar ...

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Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Scientists have taken the first snapshots of another solar system, ushering in a new era in astronomy. The infrared images show a family of three giant worlds orbiting a young hot star in the ...

Stargazers are in for a treat this week, with all the other planets in our solar system being currently visible in the night sky above the UK. Weather permitting, according to astronomers, viewers ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon, Mercury endures some of the most ...

Nasa has found three new planets – including a kind of world unseen in our own solar system. The mysterious planets, part of the TOI-270 system, are ”missing link” worlds and could be a huge gift to ...