New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be visible all at once this month. Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets.

From the largest planets to comets, there are a variety of worlds in the Solar System that experience aurorae ... gases glow in different colors. Venus and Mars also have aurorae, but they ...

Space agencies around the world are setting their sights on new frontiers, with plans to explore Venus and other distant ...

The solar system’s hottest planet ... efforts on the most promising candidates. Venus, though barren, remains an important piece of the larger puzzle of planetary science.

Mars remains a true puzzle, but not for the ... do allow the formation of numerous Venus and Earth-size planets beyond that which we see in the solar system, he said. This is potentially good ...

In the next decade, researchers will start probing the atmosphere of planets as small as Earth and Venus orbiting nearby stars. But although these two Solar System planets are similar in size and ...