For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

NASA has just announced a groundbreaking discovery: 10 new Earth-like planets beyond our solar system that could potentially ...

A debris disk, or a protoplanetary disk, surrounds a young star and is filled with ice water, similar to what we have in the ...

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

NASA's JWST has uncovered solid water ice in a distant star system, reshaping our understanding of life's building blocks and ...

Astronomers spotted water around a young, sun-like star for the first time ever, and it could help us understand solar system formation.