Extrasolar planets contextualise the Solar System among a large number of planetary systems with very different properties. Many extrasolar planets show characteristics which are not realised in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many more are waiting to be discovered? Faint signatures detected by the ...

But an alien civilisation looking towards our own Solar System might use similar alignments for the same purpose. While the planetary parade this month depends on your point of view – any two ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and how it got here.A new study ...

"We have observed giant gas planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn, but in another solar system," explains the leader of this research on the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years away. The study ...

Planets in Astrology. (Representative image of Solar System). Planetary ‘parades’ are not uncommon and one began in January this year, making Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune ...

I replied. Looking west about 40 minutes after sunset The truth is, that the planetary parade is more hype than reality, but it certainly offers valuable lessons about our solar system.