The first Star Wars movie released in 1977 and George Lucas’ legendary tale of an epic space adventure has continued to capture the hearts and minds of the viewers to this day.

A breathtaking new video compresses more than a decade of deep-space observation into a few seconds, revealing the hypnotic motion of distant worlds. The animation, created by astrophysicist Jason ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

“When compared to our solar system, each of the four planets are inside the distance of Mercury’s orbit,” Basant said. The planets closely orbit Barnard’s Star, zipping around their ...

But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might still be nine if some astronomers are correct about an as-yet ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

To understand the Snapchat planet order, you will first have to imagine the exotic solar system that revolves around the Sun. Just like every planet in the solar system revolves around the Sun, here ...

The planets of our solar system formed together with their mother star, and the Earth did likewise, emerging about 4.5 billion years ago around the sun. This happened in the habitable zone ...

On Earth, you can look up at night and see the Moon shining bright from hundreds of thousands of miles away. But if you went to Venus, that wouldn’t be the case. Not every planet has a moon – so why ...