There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to their stars that a year ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, ...

New observations show that planets forming in protoplanetary disks like that around PDS 70 can trigger the formation of ...

Auroras are beautiful phenomena on Earth, but they aren't specific to this planet. In fact, they appear on many other planets ...

If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

An exoplanet in the Trappist star system — a multi-planet star system similar to the solar system and just 39 light-years ...

The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

In addition to livestacking, there are now “smart telescopes” available that will take and process images of the night sky as ...

Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar system, which includes the planets Earth ... Taylor is a doctoral student in astronomy at the University of Michigan. But dark comets that ...

Detecting molecules on distant objects in our Solar System has been complex due to Earth’s atmospheric and instrumental ...