Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system. According to NASA's official website, Mercury is the fastest planet, zipping around the Sun every 88 Earth days. As the closest planet to the Sun, ...

Saturn is about to make its closest approach to Earth, and that means you might be able to see its rings — if you have a telescope, that is. Rain is in the forecast for Louisville on Sunday, which ...

Astronomers have found strong evidence of a giant gas planet orbiting a star in a solar system close to our own sun. Four light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple-star system has long ...

How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of more than two dozen researchers ...