For the last month and change, you might've seen the headlines about the planetary alignment, or a planetary parade, going on in our solar system. And that's true. In January 2025, Venus, Mars, ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. A yellowish-orange glow bathes Phainoterra, a planet of dramatic ...

Astro photographer Josh Dury, 27, of Somerset, England, managed the rare feat of capturing all of the planets in one photo during a recent alignment. Josh Dury / SWNS Everybody loves a parade. Most ...

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar system lacks such a planet, scientists don’t know much about how they form. Astronomers ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

Every year, Earth follows a familiar pattern of seasonal changes: As summer rolls around in the Northern Hemisphere, winter creeps in in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. But do other planets ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Not much, unless we're talking about spacecraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the last month and change, you might've seen ...