When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

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

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that govern it. In particular, there is the long-standing question of whether or ...

This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant ...

Some stars are lonely behemoths, with no surrounding planets or asteroids, while others sport a skirt of attendant planetary bodies. New research published this week in The Astrophysical Journal ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there ...

"These objects really could be anywhere in the solar system at any given time." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One million alien ...

If Earth were ejected from the Solar System — by a passing star or planetary collision — daylight would vanish in days. The ...