A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

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

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

The likely site of a new “gas giant planet” up to several times the mass of Jupiter, has been discovered by an international ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

Our solar system is the only one known to have life inside. While scientists are searching for water in other planets, a new ...

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

The Webb telescope detects a clear, hydrogen-rich atmosphere, as well as water vapor, on the hot sub-Neptune planet TOI-421 B ...

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.