Can you recite the names of all the planets in our solar system? Well, ever since Pluto got demoted, schools today have kids ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think the closer you are to the sun, the hotter they must be. Now that's ...

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system ... 8.6 times as massive as Earth and has a diameter about 2.6 times as large as our planet.

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has detected the chemical fingerprints of possible signs of life on a planet outside the solar system. Using data from ... in the constellation ...

"But I just don't see a way that the solar system can exist the way it does without there being a Planet 9." As this year progresses, he says, the Rubin observatory will start building up a ...

Scientists may have found a new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system that orbits two failed stars. Located 120 light years away, the planet appears to take an unusual path ...

The Sun by virtue of its mass and weight, controls the movement of the planets. This force is called the force of gravity. Sun is at the Centre of the solar system with eight planets (i.e. Mercury ...

NEW YORK — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...