Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

This weekend, six planets are set to share the sky in a rare “planet parade,” giving stargazers a short but magical window to ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

Stargazers can see six planets all in one evening during the second month of the year, especially Mercury, which is usually ...

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there ...

From a rare lunar occultation of Regulus and a six-planet parade to an annular solar eclipse, there will be plenty going on in the night sky in February 2026.

Auroras are not just on Earth. NASA has detected glowing northern and southern lights on Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and other ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital art of distant planet - Dottedhippo/Getty Images On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and the fifth planet from the Sun. It is a massive gas giant made mostly of hydrogen and helium, the same elements that form stars.

Two solar eclipses are scheduled for 2026: an annular eclipse on February 17 and a total solar eclipse on August 12.