The White House bid to terminate NASA’s fantastical flights of exploration “across the solar system” threatens to explode ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

The curious minds at What If explore what it would mean for life on Earth if every planet in our solar system were habitable.

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in ...

When the Sun expands into a red giant, it will swallow the inner solar system and raise the temperature in the outer regions.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...