The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

Aside from Earth, no planet in the solar system captures our imagination quite like Mars. The Red Planet is one of the few places in our cosmic neighborhood where extraterrestrial life may have ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The new exoplanet, Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b has never been seen before and is now officially being called a "Super-Venus." ...

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system's formative ... in the earliest days of our cosmic neighborhood.

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could ...

Mars, also called the Red Planet, is one of the most familiar planets in our solar system – apart from Earth, of course! Famous for its distinctive colour, Mars has become a hot topic of ...