The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Discover the planet that has the most moons. This planet is a ringed giant and the second largest in the solar system.

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

Friday, May 2, presents a perfect opportunity to catch the mighty ice giant Neptune close to the planets Saturn and Venus in ...

Astronomers claim to have discovered a new ninth planet in our solar system, according to research led by Terry Long Phan ...

Saturn orbits the Sun at roughly 9.69 km/s, maintaining its grand system of rings as it cruises through space. Uranus moves at about 6.81 km/s, spinning on its unique sideways axis as it orbits ...

Venus, on the other hand, is the second closest planet to the Sun and orbits 67 million miles away from the sun. But it's the hottest planet in the solar system. But why? It has to do with Venus ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

Venus, Saturn, and the moon will align in a pattern called a triple conjunction. Given the moon will be in its crescent form, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge ...