Stargazers can see six planets all in one evening during the second month of the year, especially Mercury, which is usually ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Planetary scientists are split, oscillating between two main theories that explain the order in ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Six planets are hanging out in the sky this month in what’s known as a planetary parade. Catch the spectacle while you can because it’s the last one of the year. These linkups happen when several ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

In March 2025, the International Astronomical Union recognised the discovery of a whopping 128 more moons orbiting around ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

Across neuroscience, psychology and fringe physics, a provocative idea is gaining new language: that the human mind might be entangled with the wider solar system in ways we barely understand. Instead ...