There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?
When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...
Since Pluto was relegated to dwarf planet status, almost everyone has agreed that there are eight planets in our solar system ...
Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...
The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.
Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...
A discovery in V883 Orionis' planet-forming disk suggests Earth's water could have come from ancient interstellar ice that ...
An alien comet passing through our solar system made its closest approach to Mars recently, and two European robotic ...
MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...
"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...
The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) as they encircle the giant planet. But smaller celestial bodies in the ...