In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

As the planets orbit the sun at different speeds along the same path - or eliptic - they can sometimes "catch up" to one another, appearing to align in the night sky. These formations are short-lived, ...

The planets orbit the sun continuously in the solar system, so at times, they slowly catch up to one another. Because they travel along the same path, or ecliptic, as they pass Earth ...

All the planets orbit roughly along the same plane ... The planets "are always more or less on the same path, and occasionally a few more of them are visible in the night sky,” Krupp said.

The planets appear to align from Earth's perspective because they orbit the sun on the same path. Stargazers in California and worldwide were treated to a planet parade of Friday when Earth's ...

Researchers found Earth's orbital changes align with past volcanic eruptions. Climate shifts and massive eruptions occurred ...

This path, known as the ecliptic, is the same one that the sun travels along during the year. This happens because the planets orbit around the sun in the same plane. Dr. van Belle likened the ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...