Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

The composite image shows seven of the solar system's planets from Earth, after sundown on Feb. 22. | Credit: Josh Dury A stunning photo has captured all seven of our neighboring planets in Earth ...

Anyone who looked up at the sky on Wednesday night may have caught a glimpse of an impressive sight: all the planets of our solar system on display. The phenomenon — also known as a "planet ...

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits. UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our ...

For comparison, a given location on Earth experiences a total solar eclipse only once every 360 years, on average. A wide variety of conjunctions and configurations involving the planets occur ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799 ... "We knew JWST could measure colors of the outer planets in ...