The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

Dwarf Planets Learn more about Pluto and other dwarf planets, which are defined as objects that orbit the Sun and are nearly round, but that have not been able to clear their orbit of debris. The ...

How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown ...

A potential interstellar interloper is currently zooming toward the Sun. Its strange approach angle suggests it may have come ...

Scientists from Vilnius University (VU) Faculty of Physics, along with members from Poland and other countries, discovered a rare planet using a space-time phenomenon first predicted by Albert ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a “rogue planet” drifting through ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...