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

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class ...

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our own—and they have been found by the hundreds throughout the Milky Way, ...

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

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." ...

Stars whizzing by our solar system could cause more havoc than astronomers previously thought, from sending Pluto’s orbit haywire to forcing Mercury to fly into the sun – or even ...