LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system ... representing a red dwarf star and its covey of planets, and a model ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer ... and the peculiar architecture of the whole system. For this purpose, they observed this brown dwarf with KPIC at high spectral resolution.

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter ...

People will be able to see a rare sight at the end of this month when all seven other planets in our solar system line up in the night sky. For the last few weeks six of the planets have been ...

Marcussen illustration Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, a world well outside our solar system, Gaia-4b. The brown dwarf, not quite a planet or a star, is Gaia-5b. Respectively, they are 244 ...

Around one to two billion years ago, this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day ...