The Sun is a very hot, very big ball of gas at the center of our solar system. Its surface can reach a blistering 10,800 ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) as they encircle the giant planet. But smaller celestial bodies in the ...

A discovery in V883 Orionis' planet-forming disk suggests Earth's water could have come from ancient interstellar ice that ...

"The detection of heavy water … proves the water's ancient heritage and provides a missing link between clouds, disks, comets ...

Astronomers are watching a new comet pass through our solar system with great interest. Based on its glow, the 33-billion-ton ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Just a few weeks ago, we crossed the significant milestone of 6,000 known exoplanets. The counter keeps getting higher, and there are 8,000 more candidates waiting for confirmation. In the decades ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...

The simulation of the Solar System that came the closest to the observation was the presence of a small planet, between the ...