All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

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 ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

THE best time to view the rare ‘planet parade’ will be tonight, according to experts. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn ...

If you’re looking for a way to fill an evening this month with something wonderous, look no further than the night sky above ...

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, because they all originally formed from the same disc of debris around the sun. The line the sun traces across the ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Tonight and throughout January, stargazers can see a planetary alignment in the night sky or what some are calling a planetary parade.