Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the "planet parade" we've been waiting for?

Whether you grew up with a poster of the solar system on your bedroom wall or not, you've probably got a specific idea of ...

From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best ...

The solar system’s most giant planet is slightly less of a giant than scientists once thought. Jupiter, a planet so huge it could hold 1,000 Earths, is 8 kilometers less wide at its equator and 24 ...

Families are being promised an 'epic space adventure' with a new exhibition landing in Manchester this February half term.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Jupiter.... Uranus.... Saturn... Earth? Sadly, Earth didn't make it onto the list of the Solar System's ringed planets. If it did, would it still be able to host life?

Rudy Frederick has been keeping an eye on the heavens for years, fascinated by what’s beyond the limits of Earth’s atmosphere ...

Scientists on Earth use seismometers to get a more detailed picture of what the inside of the Earth is made of. Those seismometers record vibrations from earthquakes. The vibrations change depending ...

Astronomers have seen the aftermath of two planetary pile-ups in the same turbulent star system — providing potential insights into how planets form 1. Observations from the early 2000s indicated that ...