When most of us think about theweather on other planets, we imagine extreme conditions—boiling acid rain, methane snow, or ...

Images from James Webb Space Telescope reveal more of the universe 05:27. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of a planet located outside of our solar system.

1. Make way for the king of the solar system! New Webb images of Jupiter highlight the planet's features, including its turbulent Great Red Spot (shown in white here), in amazing detail.

Many of these worlds are closer in size to the largest planets in our solar system, like Jupiter or Neptune, and orbit very close to their host stars. But rogue planets are likely much smaller.

The Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and around three trillion comets and icy bodies. Although not all objects of the solar system are ...

Learn about the different planets in our Solar System. Find out their size, temperature and distance from the Sun in this Scotland Second Level Science article.

Our solar system is a collection of the Sun, planets, over 100 moons, comets, asteroids, and dwarf planets like Pluto, is classified into three belts: inner, outer, and the Kuiper Belt.

Astronomers have been scouring the outer solar system for signs of a hypothetical ninth planet for almost a decade, without success. However, we may finally be on the cusp of finding it, experts say.

The European Space Agency on Wednesday released images taken in March using three of Solar Orbiter's onboard instruments. They show the sun's south pole from a distance of roughly 40 million miles ...