The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have ...

We’re closer than ever before to knowing whether there is a ninth planet whooshing around the sun – and, alas, it’s not Pluto. Planet X, also called Planet Nine, is a hypothetical planetary body seven ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in elliptical trajectories, and they are all different in size, composition, temperature, and characteristics. The planets can be ...

While our Sun prefers to go solo, many other stars are parts of binary systems, with a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other. In some cases, the stars are far enough apart that planets can ...

For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary ...

The Solar System does not have a clear border. The influence of the Sun in certain domains is small enough for the Voyager probes to have escaped into interstellar space, but there are comets and ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of confirmed dwarf planets and their moons. From left to right: Pluto (with ...

As the nights remain long and dark, we find ourselves with nearly half of the planets in retrograde in early 2025 with more soon to encounter the apparent backward motion. The current lineup includes ...