In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

The eight major planets of our Solar System orbit the Sun in the same flat plane ... in our night sky together along the ecliptic, the path traced by the Sun. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter ...

The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along the same line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic. For that reason, planets in our Earthly sky always appear somewhere ...

The solar system is made up of the Sun (our nearest star) and the objects that orbit around it, including planets, asteroids and comets. Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths ...

Prevailing solar system formation theories indicate that these planets should have at least started out following perfectly circular and share the same orbit. But today, their paths are slightly ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Interestingly, they'll always appear along the same arc in the night sky. That path is called the ecliptic, and it exists because all planets in our solar system orbit around the sun on roughly the ...

The planets orbit the sun continuously. Because they're traveling along the same path (ecliptic), at times ... To learn more about the solar system's eight planets, go to NASA's planet information ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...