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

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.

Everyone, today I saw some astonishing news: scientists say our solar system is actually within a high-temperature bubble ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...

Curiosity Point 1: A catastrophic event turned Venus into a hellish world?

The Solar System is home to a remarkable range of planets, from tiny rocky worlds to massive gas giants. But just how big are these planets really? To put it into perspective, we can run some ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from. The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the ...

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

The recently discovered interstellar object 3I/Atlas is set for a close flyby of Mars in October, where it can be observed by ...

Seismic data collected by the NASA Insight lander point to huge foreign objects lodged in the mantle of Mars from billions of ...