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

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Astronomers have recently detected a colossal object at the edge of our solar system, sparking excitement and curiosity ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

Astronomers have identified an interstellar comet entering our solar system, sparking excitement and intrigue within the ...

There, nitrogen and methane have turned into ice, covering the entire planet. Yet in this icy landscape, scientists speculate that there may be a liquid ocean beneath the ice, and this ocean might ...

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

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for ...

The coldest planet in the Solar System is Uranus, which is surprisingly colder than Neptune due to its unique internal heat ...