Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

Planet WASP-127b is home to extremely powerful, supersonic winds - which scientists have said is the fastest jetstream in the known universe in a new study ... patterns just like Earth and ...

If an Earth-like planet awaits beyond Neptune, it promises to open a new chapter in planetary science. Note: Materials ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...