"Uranus's magnetosphere is one of the strangest in the solar system," Paola Tiranti, a researcher at Northumbria University ...

The planets are visible throughout February, "but they’ll be lined up best toward the end of the month,” NASA says.

6 planets will align in a 'planet parade' Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, shortly after sunset. Here's which planets you might see and how to best view them.

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

This discovery is out of this world. For the first time since its operations began in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a direct image, published by the journal Nature, of a new ...

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access the inner planets. Now the results are in, and we can do interesting ...

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...