WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close ...

For decades, our solar system was thought to have nine planets, with Pluto considered the smallest and farthest. But in 2006, Pluto was officially reclassified as a dwarf planet by the ...

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

The long-theorized Planet 9, which astronomers have speculated could be a Neptune-sized planet that has been lurking on the outer edge of the solar system, could explain the unusual clustering and ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show. Close. Advertisement.

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb ...

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system due to its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, trapping heat as part of a runaway greenhouse effect. To stream 13News Now on your phone, you need the ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...

A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ago. Then the planets began to emerge, as the billions of ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.