A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its way to outer regions of the solar system in the late 80's, it noticed something odd. Both of the ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, lacked what's ...

"It does mean that planets outside the solar system could be in the same situation. These insights could therefore help researchers investigating exoplanets, by shedding light on the kinds of ...

While interesting, the question of life is beyond the scope of our paper ... This explains why both Uranus and its solar system neighbor, Neptune, have magnetic fields very different ...

As technology has advanced, it has unlocked more secrets of the strange, tilted planet (it orbits on its side compared to other planets in the solar system), from the fact ... don't know enough about ...

The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old. Astronomers believe that roughly 100 million years into its existence, the planets first began to form in a rotating, flat cloud of gas ...