The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

Our solar system used to ... professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at Northern Arizona University. Sheppard and Trujillo were the first to notice that the orbits of a handful of known ...

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Earth" planet pretty close to us, just outside our solar system! This planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbits our nearest ...

With planets so hot they rain iron, planets with savage, glass-filled winds and planets so mishappen by their stars they roll around in their orbits ... anything in the solar system," 26-year ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured incredible views of the stormy atmosphere of the largest planet in the Solar System on its 66th ... its prime mission of 35 orbits of the planet, but in an ...

As humans look to make Mars another home for the species, lets take a look at some stunning images of the red planet shared ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it seems.

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.