Smaller gas giants are less likely to survive in such systems, surrounded by clashing planetary titans. With their lower ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

Over the last 50 years, we've recorded spectacular images from all over the solar system, but sound recordings are few and ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

The possibility that there might be a large, unknown planet lurking in the outer Solar System far beyond Pluto has long been a staple of science fiction. But for the past decade, astronomers have been ...