The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

Scientists have captured faint magnetic signatures resulting from the tidal movement of seawater across the planet — and they ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

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

A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may have significantly altered the orbits of the four outer planets in our ...

Four planets will be in the parade in January while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.

The previous hypotheses and research focused on how interactions between these planets reshaped their orbits, Malhotra said that they are not consistent "with certain important details of the ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which would explain the peculiarities of these four planets' paths. Prevailing solar ...