The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...
The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...
Starting up again Saturday, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. The planetary alignment, or a ...
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...