The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

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There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has gathered significant scientific attention, and soon it will reach its closest point to ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

What would happen if Earth, Mars, and all the planets in our solar system merged into one massive super-planet? In this video ...