Planetary systems begin in chaos. In their primitive form, many rocky and icy objects are careening through space, smashing ...

There could be a ninth planet in our solar system that's lying in wait to be discovered - and no, it's not Pluto. Our solar ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar neighbor, which lies just 4.2 light-years away — thanks to a powerful new ...

Research suggests that Saturn's rings don’t end where the eye expects - specks of ring material seem to float above and below ...

The hours following sunset on Dec. 25 offer a wealth of naked-eye astronomy targets that can put even the most glitzy Christmas lights to shame, especially when viewed from a dark sky location.

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, known for its massive size, strong gravity, powerful storms and many moons ...

Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again.

Fomalhaut lies about 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, aka the Southern Fish, and is one of the ...

With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man's Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a ...

The Cassini probe took its final orbits, referred to as the Grand Finale Orbits (GFOs), in 2017, before launching itself into ...

The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show that some of their ...