In a humorous take, the solar system is imagined with desi moms giving advice to their planetary children. From Mercury being ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Each planet in our solar system is given a unique, humorous catchphrase that reflects its personality and role. From ...

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

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could provide insights into the formation of planets over 4.1 billion years ago ...

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 ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may ...

This first-order model of planetary growth in the solar nebula is mainly driven by temperature and density variation, but there are many other factors that contributed as well, such as planet ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.