Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

"The Solar Family" is an 11-minute educational film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films in 1936. It presents the evolution of the solar system through the lens of the planetesimal hypothesis ...

All seven planets are going to line up in the night sky on Friday in a rare planetary parade that will not be repeated for another 15 years. The celestial display will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus ...

This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar to the formation of Jupiter and Saturn. Diminutive Barnards Star is ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system—using a technique known as "transit timing variation." In research ...