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

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...

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

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

When news first broke that a foreign body, nicknamed Atlas, had drifted into our solar system from the deep unknown, it ...

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A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor and continues to be a treasure trove of information about the condition of ...

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...

3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object to whoosh through our solar system, after 1I/ʻOumuamua (discovered in ...

Scientists armed with the immense observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected faint traces of fluorescent flatulence leaking out from the dwarf planet Makemake, which lurks ...