Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...
While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...
Tonight and throughout January, stargazers can see a planetary alignment in the night sky or what some are calling a ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...
All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event ...
Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.
When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...
"A parade of planets, also sometimes referred to as a planetary alignment, is when several planets in our solar system appear ...
The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along a line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic. For that reason, planets in our Earthly sky always appear somewhere along a ...
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...