The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Ah, fall! The air gets crisper, leaves turn to a kaleidoscope of fiery hues, and suddenly, every basic spiced latte feels ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

It's been 30 years since the discovery of the first planet around another star like our Sun. With every new discovery, ...

Imagine you're going down a long waterslide. You've been traveling through it enjoying every moment despite occasional bumps on the way. You know the end will eventually come, but you don't know when, ...

The composition of crystals in volcanic rocks changes with their ages in ways that correlate with the Solar System’s ...

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

The horologists behind Vacheron Constantin’s La Quête du Temps reveal how they crafted the mechanical masterpiece to mark the ...

@Starlit Astronomy: The many mysteries of Venus may be related to a massive celestial impact event. In the early solar system ...