Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

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

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...

NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...