When it came to discovering Neptune, scientists didn’t need to see to believe. The eighth planet in our solar system was ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

so the planet doesn't look deep blue as it does in most photos, but the rings are very clear. No space probes have visited ...

and supposing that the planets were formed by local condensations (not by the detachment of rings) within the revolving nebula, and that the outer planets, Uranus and Neptune, have been more ...

The closest one to the sun is Mercury, then it’s Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune ... rings which extend out about 280,000 km from the planet, the rings have an average ...

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe. Here's her pick of the telescope’s best shots ...

(explodes) QUEENIE HOI SHAN CHAN: It is possible that after 30 million years, Mars might have a ring of its own ... be in the first place, and what does it mean that we're on this rock ...

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

Neptune, made up of around 80% frozen icy ... rock beneath flows very slowly over geologic time. QUICK: Europa does not have molten rock like Earth does, but what we do believe Europa has is ...

Our solar system used to have nine planets ... small world called Eris in the Kuiper Belt — a vast ring of icy objects beyond Neptune’s orbit that also happens to be the former ninth planet ...