In the classic "overhead view" diagram of our solar system, the planets (except for oddball Pluto, recently demoted to a dwarf planet ... and again to make asteroids and moons and planets.

In fact, it doesn’t just dwarf our home—if all ... it would appear larger than our Moon! Gravity is also intensely strong on this colossal planet. It’s 2.5 times that of our precious home ...

Although we have different skin colors and live in different countries, we should all be family on this planet. No other cause ... Barbara informed me, is a dwarf galaxy in Sagittarius), the ...

Qatar Calendar House announced on Thursday that four planets will align with the Moon in the skies over Qatar during April. Residents of Qatar will be able to observe Mars with the naked eye in ...

Read on for a cursory course on these primary asteroids. Named for the Roman goddess of the maternal, fertile and agricultural, Ceres is technically a dwarf planet but is regarded by astrologers ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...