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

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

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 Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

A newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world, much closer to the Sun than ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...