What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

(WHTM) – When you look into the night sky, you’ll see planes flying by, stars twinkling, and sometimes you’ll see planets. Mercury has 88 days in a year and is a terrestrial planet. The size of ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a rare solar system in the Milky Way that boasts six planets orbiting in perfect rhythm like a cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since ...

There may be another world lurking between the orbital lines of our solar system. Astronomers in Japan have published their theory of an “Earth-like planet,” dubbed Planet Nine, that’s hiding in plain ...

For over a century, researchers have been puzzled by strange gravitational forces seemingly pulling on the orbits of Neptune and Uranus in the distant reaches of our solar system. While some have ...

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

Something is throwing icy bodies past Neptune, and scientists have an interesting idea about what it might be. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...