Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

Another puzzle piece in how our solar system formed. The post Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet ...

New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

Two pairs of ‘rogue’ Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new ...

As scientists catalogue the planets in distant star systems, they have found more than a third of them are a distinct type ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a rare alien world that sits in a cosmic “sweet spot” between scorching hot Jupiters and frozen gas giants like Saturn.

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

Interplanetary travel may become possible this century through Mars missions, space habitats, and propulsion advances, but ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of ...