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

Stargazers can witness a rare 'planet parade' in January and February 2024, where six planets align prominently in the night ...

"A parade of planets, also sometimes referred to as a planetary alignment, is when several planets in our solar system appear ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...

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 ...

Referred to as a planetary parade or alignment, this celestial event occurs when multiple planets in our solar system appear ...