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

Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows that the region surrounding our solar system is far from empty. Instead, it ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

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

There are ‘hot Jupiters’ that whirl closely around their stars, including the planet discovered ... categorized because of ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...