For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare ...

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane ... Read more This mind-blowing map shows Earth’s position within the vast universe Never is this more apparent ...

With each mass, she modeled 2 million years of orbit to find what kind of architectural impact each mass would have on our solar system. Specifically, she tracked changes to the other planets ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers ... to figure out whether this system has two or three objects needed to look to its outer orbit for answers.

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

While most objects in our solar system orbit the same plane, and in the same direction, the orbit of these objects looks like this. Some of them orbit on a slight tilt. Others orbit backwards.

Like the planets in our solar system orbit the sun, most exoplanets also orbit a star. To date there are over 5500 known exoplanets confirmed by NASA, with trillions more predicted to exist within ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

This strange object near the solar system's edge may be a rare example of the 3-body problem in our own cosmic neighborhood.