Our solar system features eight planets, and each of these planets is very distinguishable as they are all quite different. During the time that humans have been exploring our solar system and the ...

The planets in our solar system aren’t static. Like Earth, the other planets also experience seasonal variations with atmospheric changes occurring throughout the year. That’s why each year the Hubble ...

Part of its yearly grand tour of the outer solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured new technicolor images of the giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The collection of ...

Just 40 light-years from Earth, the TRAPPIST-1 system of planets is home to the largest family of Earth-like worlds known to astronomers. At least seven planets are known to orbit within the ...

Scientists have captured the birth of a new solar system for the very first time. These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from Earth.

Using the ESO 3.6-m New Technology Telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), a team of astronomers [1] have discovered a dusty and opaque disk surrounding a young solar-type star in the outskirts ...

The James Webb Space Telescope 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 has long been a ...

Mashable’s Ranked series crowns the best and sorts the rest. The planets of our solar system, stretching from Mercury out to Neptune, are all incredible. In a dense cloud of gas and dust billions of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope 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 has long been a ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...