Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

NASA has confirmed over 5,000 exoplanets, ranging from scorching gas giants to icy water worlds, some with the potential to ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star - one of our closest ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Our solar system has always seemed a vast place ... (we think), but could be an object with a highly elongated orbit far beyond the orbit of even Pluto. Its existence is suggested by mathematical ...

11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago. Now, University of Vienna doctoral student Efrem Maconi thinks that our ...