A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...
The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...
SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...
This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...
The Solar System. It's no longer about the eight main planets anymore. Sorry Pluto. A new planet has entered the fray.
New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...
In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...
A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...
TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...
The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...
Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.