The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of the sun and everything that orbits it — planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and even dust and gas. The order of the planets in the solar ...

Photographer Riste Spiroski snapped a striking view of the moon and Jupiter hanging over the ancient lake Ohrid in northern ...

Jupiter and Mars shine in the evening, more planets gather in the morning, and the Eta Aquariid meteors join in.

The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon ...

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

All of the other planets except Mercury and Venus have at least one moon. The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System and was the first to form. The huge gravitational pull of the Sun keeps ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

Saturn's Moon Titan Could Harbor Life ... has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that ...

For comparison, the full moon is about 30 arcminutes wide in ... Yet none of this kind exist in our solar system. Planet Nine would help fill that gap.' Specifically, finding a large planet ...