Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system's formative stages and played a critical role in planetary formation.

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

Most of the information we have about planets beyond our solar system (exoplanets) comes from looking at dips in starlight as these planets pass in front of their host star. This technique can ...

Online game Merge Planets Deluxe is a fascinating puzzle where players will have to combine different planets to create new and larger worlds. Develop a fusion strategy, use your logical abilities and ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary ...

People will be able to see a rare sight at the end of this month when all seven other planets in our solar system line up in the night sky. For the last few weeks six of the planets have been ...

Astronomers have finally unlocked a crucial piece of the planet formation puzzle by detecting the magnetic fingerprint of a young star’s protoplanetary disk. Using ALMA, researchers observed how dust ...

Harvard scientists studying the mystery of water and life on ancient Mars believe they may have finally found a solution.