The solar system is a grand cosmic stage where each planet and moon plays a unique role in a story billions of years in the making. From Mercury’s shrinking surface and Venus’s runaway greenhouse ...

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About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...

A game-changing instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our Solar System by ...

I recall as a child lying on the grass at night, gazing up at the stars, and wondering if any of those distant suns had planets orbiting nearby. I was not ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a ‘twin Earth’ capable of sustaining ...

European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, with additional data from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A rogue planet, untethered to any star, has been observed consuming six billion tons of gas and dust per second, challenging ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that ...

Planet Y has not been directly observed, but its influence is apparent. Researchers studied roughly 50 icy objects beyond ...