An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

A TERRIFYING alien planet that “rains glass” lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a “nightmare world” by Nasa, the giant exoplanet has staggeringly fast ...

Finding a world like Earth elsewhere in the universe might mean looking for the right kind of solar system. A new discovery sheds light on what composition of planets might be necessary to support ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

In a newly shared image, NASA has uncovered a unique view of our solar system's largest planet. The picture, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals Jupiter shining in ultraviolet light.

It takes Jupiter roughly twelve years to orbit the sun and it spends a year of that sojourn in each zodiac sign, exaggerating the qualities and energies of each. Associated with abundance ...

It actually follows its own tiny elliptical orbit around what is called the center ... accelerated by the gravity of either Jupiter or the sun itself, said Bloomer. For comets, the period around ...

Four planets will be in the parade in January, while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...