Seeing the planets is one thing, but the JWST can go further. It detects the distinctive color of each ... acting like ...

Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system ... Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials. Ceres is less a ball of rock ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find ...

“It’s completely plausible for our solar system to have captured such an Oort cloud planet,” says Nathan Kaib, a co-author on the new work and an astronomer at the Planetary Science Institut ...

“If these huge planets act like bowling balls cruising through our solar system, they can disrupt, protect or, in a sense, do both to planets like ours. Therefore, better understanding their ...

Stargazers will want to dig out their telescopes this evening as all the planets in our solar system will be visible ... to peering into the universe with '3D glasses'. Astrophysicists at the ...