Artwork: the Kepler-90 system is the first to tie with our Solar System in number of planets Nasa has found a distant star circled by eight planets, equal to the complement in our own Solar System.

8 planets orbit the Sun. The closest are the four rocky planets, the remaining gas planets inhabit deeper space. The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids ...

Jupiter as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on April 8, 2023 during its 50th orbit of the giant ... [+] planet. Processing by citizen scientist Brian Swift. NASA’s $1.1 billion Juno spacecraft ...