Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

For decades, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system—until Pluto was reclassified in 2006. But what if ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

Despite growing interest, astronomy remains an expensive hobby in Bangladesh, with telescopes being costly and light pollution in cities limiting observation ...

Asteroids are more than just space rocks—they come in many shapes, sizes, and compositions, with some even defying scientific ...

INDIANA, USA — Stargazers, mark your calendars! A rare seven-planet alignment will be visible in the early night sky in late ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

According to planetary formation theory, these planets acquired their water by accumulating matter from icy planetesimals that had formed in the outer Solar System and then migrated towards the Sun.

Similar brines have been spotted elsewhere in the Solar System, including on the dwarf planet Ceres and on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, says Julie Castillo-Rogez, a planetary scientist at NASA’s ...

This happens because all the planets in our solar system orbit the Sun on nearly the same plane, called the ecliptic. Occasionally, some of them line up in a way that makes them visible together.

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a cameo in the planetary parade which is running all this month and next.