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

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 ...

The eight major planets of our Solar System orbit the Sun in the same flat plane ... put cameras on sea lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor. Scientists are preparing to drill ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

The eight major planets of our Solar System orbit the Sun in the same flat plane, and all at different speeds. Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, completes an orbit – a year for the planet ...