The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter ...

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be visible all at once this month. Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets.

An interstellar visitor may have warped the solar system billions of years ago, a new study has claimed. Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn ...

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...

The Moon and Jupiter will meet in the southwest sky at around 9.00pm GMT, where Jupiter will be shining bright to the left of the Moon. At the same time tomorrow evening (February 6), the pair will ...