Space.com talks to artist and author Martin Vargic, who is turning exoplanets into stunning and intricate art.

We worked out how many trips each of the solar system's eight planets has taken around the sun over the past 4.6 billion years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show By Leah Crane 20 January 2025 ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits at only 0.387 astronomical units (AU), or about 36 million miles (58 ...

An international team from Taiwan, Japan, and Australia used 40 years' worth of data from two space probes to track down what they believe are signs of this distant planet moving around our sun ...

What to know about asteroid with small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 04:19. Seven planets are aligning in the night sky this week, creating a brief chance to see a "planetary parade." Worldwide ...

The sun’s gravitational pull may be able to capture incoming objects from as far as 3.8 light years away, including interstellar comets and even rogue planets. That would make our solar system ...

The Sun and planets of our solar system all formed from the same cloud of gas and dust, but the planets’ compositions vary with mass and distance from our star.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 light-years from Earth.

The most common type of planet found around Sun-like stars in our universe is the sub-Neptune—a planet that sits in size between Earth and Neptune, and typically has a pretty thick atmosphere.

A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ago.. Then the planets began to emerge, as the billions of particles ...

Hiding just six light-years away from our solar system, an exoplanet has been revealed to be orbiting the closest single star to Earth. The world—dubbed Barnard b—is thought to have about half ...