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

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

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Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

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

Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Discover the real reason behind Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet and the science that led to this change.

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars ...

Most of the information we have about planets beyond our solar system (exoplanets ... used 20 years of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, combining data from two of the telescope's ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.