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

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

On July 21, 2025, theEuropean Southern Observatory (ESO) highlighted an exciting discovery made possible by its cutting-edge technology: the detection of a spiral disc around the young star HD 135344B ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

What makes 3I/ATLAS especially intriguing is that the comet might be three billion years older than our entire Solar System.

Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard discovered the asteroid on September 27 with the Dark Energy Camera on the ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and Earth. The authors dubbed it Planet Y.

Voyager 1 is going to achieve another monumental feat in a few weeks -- it will be the first spacecraft to travel a light day ...

NISAR satellite captures detailed Earth images for disaster response, infrastructure monitoring, and agricultural management, ...

NASA recently launched a telescope designed and built by UMass Lowell and the space agency that seeks to identify planets beyond the solar system and other objects in space that would ...