New observations show that planets forming in protoplanetary disks like that around PDS 70 can trigger the formation of ...

Most planets that we find outside of our solar system are already fully formed, with their birth materials long since ...

Exomoons are a hot topic in the science community, as none have been confirmed with astronomers finding new and creative ways ...

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, ...

The rain it raineth every day, as Shakespeare noted, apparently even on Saturn. The cosmos, it seems, is no comfort at this ...

Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

In just a year of peering out at a small slice of the galaxy, the Kepler telescope has discovered 1,235 possible planets outside our solar system. Amazingly, 54 of them are seemingly in the zone ...

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

If Saturn's rings are older, they are also easier to explain. The Solar System was much more chaotic billions of years ago, ...

It was the first observed object in our solar system that originated outside of it ... which includes the planets Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury, and move in nearly circular orbits around the ...

The search for life in the universe is always ongoing, and now a new theory put forward in a scientific study could change ...