From the scorching surface of Mercury to the icy edges of Neptune, our planetary neighborhood is full of wonders. The order ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

On July 21, 2025, theEuropean Southern Observatory (ESO) highlighted an exciting discovery made possible by its cutting-edge ...

New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once ...

Is it a STEM kit? Is it a star projector? Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector review will give you all the details.

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

But instead of identifying a full-blown planet, the team spotted 2017 OF201 in 19 telescope images captured from 2011 to 2018.

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.

This phenomenon known as a "planet parade," will feature Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all present at the same time along a line in the night sky on Friday, NASA says.