The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward, is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn ... contains 99.8% of the solar ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

Discover the planet that has the most moons. This planet is a ringed giant and the second largest in the solar system.

So which planets in our solar system have rings? All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these ...

Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with ...

Unveil the mysteries of Saturn, the often overlooked beauty of our solar system. From its ferocious storms to mesmerizing ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

Saturn's Moon Titan Could Harbor Life ... shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its First ...

The solar system's smallest planet is quickly approaching superior conjunction, so catch it in the morning sky while you can.

The solar system consists of the Sun, our home star, and everything that is bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf ...

For years, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet ... plane of the solar system, meaning it would actually orbit the Sun in the opposite direction than the other eight planets.

Venus and Saturn will line up either side of Neptune ... given that it is the only major planet in our solar system that is not visible to the naked eye. The ice giant's relative dimness comes ...