The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Scientists believe our solar system may be hiding a secret world — and it’s not the famous Planet X :eyes: A new study ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their atmospheres, ...

Jupiter boasts the shortest day in our solar system, completing a rotation in just under 10 hours. This rapid spin, a result of its immense size, gaseous composition, and retained angular momentum ...

A rare triple conjunction of Venus, Mars and Mercury is happening on the opposite side of the solar system to where Earth is, ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

Extra-solar planets are among the most thrilling discoveries of our age. Just today, scientists using Spitzer space telescope data announced the first detection of infrared light from an extra-solar ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...