Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far ... On a clear night from Earth we can sometimes see the five planets which are closest to ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...

A powerful new tool comes online this year that could help astronomers locate the mysterious planet hiding somewhere beyond ...

It stands as one of the five officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system, alongside Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. These celestial bodies share common features like being spherical ...

This image of Pluto, one of 77 composite photographs that appeared in Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System, shows the dwarf planet lit from behind by the Sun, surrounded by a tenuous, hazy blue ...

Apart from the eight planets and the sun, there are five dwarf planets ... The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

Scientists have found a ring around an unassuming mini-planet in our Solar System to debunk ... was downgraded to dwarf status in 2006. About eight billion kilometres (five billion miles) from ...