Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The world of Sailor Moon does not just relate to our own solar system, but the many unknown planets from the original story ...

From ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ to ‘Deep Impact’ and ‘Don’t Look Up’, nothing seems to bring ...

The Radcliffe Wave inside a cartoon model of the Milky Way ... But in reality, everything moves, our Solar System being no exception. As it drifts along the Milky Way, it encounters unseen ...

giving the ringed planet more known moons than the rest of the planets in the solar system combined. The 128 newly discovered moons give Saturn a total of 254 moons in addition to its spectacular ...

Saturn, too tiny to make out, lies at the center of a swarm of 274 moons shown her at their correct relative distances from the planet. The blue and red arcs represent the moons' orbits.

The number of planetary moons may also increase if we find more planets in the solar system. One such world is the elusive Planet Nine — a hypothetical giant planet that may lurk in the far ...

Most solar companies set the price according to the solar system's wattage. A solar installation's “cost per watt” is a little like the “price per square foot” when you buy a house.

Planets beyond our solar system are called exoplanets. Those orbiting Barnard’s star are among the smallest of the more than 5,800 exoplanets discovered since the 1990s as astronomers refine ...

The solar system is a region of space, and all of the objects contained within which are gravitationally bound to the sun. This means all the planets and moons, all of the asteroids and comets ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s history. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on an ...