New Scientist

How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare celestial alignment

Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary alignment, and it will be ...
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The planet of ice and storms: How Neptune changed our view of the solar system

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar system. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 was not just the triumph of ...
Futurism

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Astronomers Discover an Exoplanet in the Wrong Place, Hinting at a Planetary System That Was Born ‘Inside Out’

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...