SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

"This is really like looking at ourselves in a funhouse mirror." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Skewed planetary pathways around ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Astronomers using planet-hunting satellites have discovered a rare solar system with six planets moving completely in sync with one another, as if they were untouched by any outside force since being ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

BRITS are clueless about our solar system – with four in 10 unable to identify the biggest planet and a quarter uncertain ...

Let me explain more about the planets in our solar system in a way that a 7-year-old can understand. Think of our solar system like a big family. The Sun is the parent, and the eight planets are like ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

There aren’t Snapchat planets. There’s a fresh way to look into the solar system which is known as Snapchat planets. Utilizing Snapchat’s Augmented Reality feature, you can now put digital planets ...