Baker said that there are other astronomical events that may be more interesting than the parade of planets. Baker said Mars ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Tonight and throughout January, stargazers can see a planetary alignment in the night sky or what some are calling a ...

In the early evening, look to the southwest and you'll see Venus (the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon) and ...

Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...