The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.

There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond the eighth planet Neptune. The tantalizing prospect of a ninth ...

In comparison, the fastest wind ever measured in the Solar System was found on Neptune ... Note * While the team hasn't measured the rotation speed of the planet directly, they expect WASP ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

Mars’s axis of rotation is tilted 25.2 degrees relative ... to a degree unlike any other planet in the solar system. The planet’s northern hemisphere consists mostly of low-lying plains ...