Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

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

The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

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

Astronomers have made an incredible discovery of a large molecular cloud located just over 300 light-years from Earth that is ...

Saturn's Moon Titan Could Harbor Life ... shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its First ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think ... 36 million miles away from our shining star.