Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed surface ice methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for ...

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

The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of the sun and everything that orbits it — planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and even dust and gas. The order of the planets in the solar ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Astronomers may have found a candidate for Planet Nine. This planet is beyond Neptune. The finding could be the first ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...