Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Planetary scientists are split, oscillating between two main theories that explain the order in ...

Scientists are sharpening the methods used to search for alien artifacts inside our own solar system, drawing on recent ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

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 ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...