The central star of the Kepler-385 system closely resembles our Sun but is about 10% larger and 5% hotter. Among its seven planets, the two innermost ones, only slightly larger than Earth ...

The planets in the Solar System are all different but we can divide ... of 4 images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on December 7, 2000. This is because cameras didn't have a field-of-view ...

The Star Wars original trilogy introduced viewers to so many iconic planets, and here's all you ... A remote moon in the ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

"Solar system formation models using the new solar composition successfully ... This new knowledge gives us a firmer basis for understanding what element abundances in giant planet atmospheres can ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond the eighth planet Neptune. The tantalizing prospect of a ninth ...

In fact, every planet—and every moon—in the solar system will be in the sky during the eclipse. However, that doesn’t mean you’ll see them all. Contrary to what you might have read ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Our ability to detect planets outside our Solar System is becoming more refined ... and mini-Neptunes (up to 7 or 8 times the size of Earth), orbiting very close to their star, often closer than ...