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

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

The Helix Nebula is approximately 694 light-years away from the Solar System. Despite this seemingly immense distance, it ...

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

The outline of the cosmic simian's mouth and face are sculpted from a colossal cloud of molecular dust located some 500 light ...

The new spectrograph on Chile's SOAR telescope captures Eta Carinae with unprecedented precision, revealing the secrets of ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

NASA's Psyche orbiter looked back and snapped a photo of Earth with the moon on its way to the asteroid Psyche in 2029. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU illustration As a NASA spacecraft whizzed away ...

Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new Earth-sized world might be lurking, dubbed Planet Y. Astronomers have long proposed that there might be hidden planets beyond the Kuiper belt, a region ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...