The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered a 30-million-year-old “planet factory” during its investigations, which fundamentally altered our knowledge about planetary origin. Researchers are gaining ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life.