Then came Neptune, the most distant of the eight targets ... Earth features prominently in all of these photos.) The innermost planet wouldn't be visible until just before sunrise, so Masi ...

when astronomers decided that Pluto is in fact a 'dwarf planet.' The eight planets in our system - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - all have unique features that ...

To celebrate the Hive Overmind's Discover Magazine's new picture gallery software, I've collected my favorite pictures of all the planets in our ... of the Earth at 8 km/sec (5 miles/sec), they ...

“We’ve been trying to image planets for eight years with no luck, and now we have pictures of three planets at once,” said Bruce MacIntosh, an astrophysicist at Lawrence Livermore and one of ...

gas-rich disks around a central star — the birthplaces of planets. Photos of these features, captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), were unveiled on Monday (Jan. 8 ...

Morning skywatchers will get a special treat over the next few weeks as five of the solar system's other eight planets will all ... YOUR TAKE: Share your photos of the sky Need a break?

The twin ships performed dazzling science, returning some of the best pictures ever taken ... called a parade of planets, when six of our solar system’s eight planets (nine if you count little ...

The photos could help pop more pieces into the longstanding puzzle of how Earth came to exist. Ask an astronomer how planets form ... and it's a real baby at just 1.8 million years old.

The eight planets in our system - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - all have unique features that make them stand apart from the others.