Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

Imagine the solar system's planets throwing a Bollywood dance party. Each planet has its unique dance move. Mercury moves quickly, Venus glides sensua ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...

Learn about the 128 newly discovered moons of Saturn, believed to be the remnants of collisions that occurred early in the ...

Sometimes these happenings are also known as "planet parades ... a pair of binoculars or a small telescope could be helpful in seeing the other two planets - Uranus and Neptune.

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...