A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

As civilizations become more and more advanced, their power needs also increase. It's likely that an advanced civilization ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

Space Time-Lapse Of The Outer Solar System Planets Spinning View From The Hubble Telescope Posted: February 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 10, 2025 The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured ...

Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...

Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published ...