Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not ...

Here are some of this month’s highlights. As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky.

Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists ...

(The point at the end of the apsis is the aphelion). For some bodies, like all of the planets of the solar system, the difference between the perihelion and aphelion is quite negligible.

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.

“I wanna build a system like the solar system, where I’m the sun.” And the planets revolve around me ... project would feature a nine-minute song. The record will follow on from his ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre ... a group of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany presents the most comprehensive analysis to date of this ...

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a cameo in the planetary parade which is running all this month and next.

Stargazers are in for a treat early this new year, as the sky is full of stars - quite literally so!January is set to witness an alignment of not one, not two - but six planets in the night sky! As ...

During the first nights of February, the crescent moon should line up with the planets as well. The planets are spread far apart in the solar system, AccuWeather wrote. Although it can be hard to see ...