The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

From the scorching surface of Mercury to the icy edges of Neptune, our planetary neighborhood is full of wonders. The order of the planets isn't just trivia—it tells a story about temperature, ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to the ...

This landmark discovery of the planet – named TWA 7b – which was recently published in the journal Nature, came after an ...