(It is, in fact, the only moon in the solar system to have one.) Bonestell saw the opportunity to paint a moonscape without a black sky and produced a famous painting showing Saturn in a blue sky ...

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

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.

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...

The Sun and planets of our solar system all formed from the same cloud of gas and dust, but the planets’ compositions vary with mass and distance from our star.

Between February 25 and February 28, all seven planets in our solar system will be visible in the night sky. It's known as a planetary parade. You'll need a telescope for some of them, but you ...

All eight of the solar system’s “major” planets appear in this illustration, but the actual number of planetary bodies orbiting our star is far greater. Digital Vision/Getty Images.

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. The ice line. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.