Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary alignment, and it will be ...

Some parades occur when only three or four planets align in our sky, but the coming one on Feb. 28, 2026, is a bit more rare.

On February 28, 2026, the evening sky will offer a rare celestial geometry: six planets of our Solar system will seem to ...

The planets in our solar system are currently showing a special constellation. We explain what can be seen in the night sky.

A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.