When the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and expands into a red giant, it will eventually encompass the innermost planets of the solar system, out to about Earth’s orbit. Being closer to our enlarged ...

Beyond the asteroid belt lies a vast region dominated by giant planets and frozen worlds. This video explores the colossal storms of Jupiter, the magnificent rings of Saturn, the unusual sideways ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have produced a detailed paired view of Saturn, and the images are doing more than just looking pretty. Taken weeks apart, the two ...

Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new Earth-sized world might be lurking, dubbed Planet Y. Astronomers have long proposed that there might be hidden planets beyond the Kuiper belt, a region ...