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

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

Siraj’s Planet Y search started about a year ago when he was trying to find out whether the shape of the Kuiper Belt is flat.

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

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our understanding of how planets form. These slight tilts, similar to those seen ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

What do you do when you encounter a strange astronomical event, a collection of data from planets thousands of light-years away, and models that can't ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory is thrilled to be your guide to the skies. In this column, I’ll be clarifying some of ...