An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to ... and dynamically ''cool'' migration path in a proto-planetary disc for the hot Jupiter, preserving its neighbours.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to ... and dynamically "cool" migration path in a proto-planetary disk for the hot Jupiter, preserving its neighbors.

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.