What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Jupiter, the colossal planet at the heart of our solar system, has long been a subject of intrigue. Recent research from Rice ...

How did Jupiter’s formation shape the solar system, and specifically Earth’s orbit? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances h | Space ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

The comet-like object Chiron has been caught in the process of forming new rings, which could help us understand how these ...

The newly found object has an estimated mass about one million times that of the Sun. Its true identity remains uncertain: it ...

Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ...

The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a lot of interest lately, especially after the 2022 Decadal Survey from the ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

Astronomers have found a developing ring system around Chiron, an icy body between Saturn and Uranus. This discovery provides ...

The star WISPIT 2 was first observed using VLT-SPHERE (Very Large Telescope – Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch), a ground-based telescope in northern Chile operated by the ...