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

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

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

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

"I wanted to create the dashboard because there currently isn't a go-to place to see which types of planets are being observed by JWST and answering questions like: 'How many terrestrial planets has ...

These rocky bits eventually coalesced to form the terrestrial planets. However, at a distance of around 4 astronomical units from the Sun (AU; 1 AU is the average Sun-Earth distance of 93 million ...

Because many close-matching simulations had the planet-like object swooping through the inner solar system, the researchers created an additional 10,000 simulations including the terrestrial ...

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The alignment peaks on January 25 and Mercury joins the ...