Stargazers can see six planets all in one evening during the second month of the year, especially Mercury, which is usually ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Planetary scientists are split, oscillating between two main theories that explain the order in ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

In March 2025, the International Astronomical Union recognised the discovery of a whopping 128 more moons orbiting around ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

Across neuroscience, psychology and fringe physics, a provocative idea is gaining new language: that the human mind might be entangled with the wider solar system in ways we barely understand. Instead ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...