Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

By studying the dust grains whirling around it, astronomers hope to better understand how solar systems like our own take shape.

The planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

When it comes to solar power, a lot has changed since we bought our off grid home twelve years ago. Today, there are all ...

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more conducive to life in its distant past then we previously believed. Some 4.5 billion years ago ...

Two significant location-based factors will determine your system cost and potential solar savings: the cost of energy where you live and how much sunlight your property receives. Solar may seem ...

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

no other bodies in the solar system exhibit plate tectonics today. Why is our world different? "We don't know for sure," Bradford Foley, a geodynamicist at Penn State, told Live Science.

People will be able to see a rare sight at the end of this month when all seven other planets in our solar system line up in ... unobstructed view of the low southwestern horizon 30 to 45 minutes ...

told Live Science. In the paper, the researchers describe how they modeled the orbits of the four outer planets and performed 50,000 simulations of a large object passing through the solar system ...

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 ...

Professor Brian Cox explores the dramatic lives of the eight majestic planets/worlds that make up our solar system.