Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Jupiter has been retrograde in the sign of the twins since October. Retrogrades turn our energy inward, while a planet’s ...

Researchers found How Violent Events During Earth's Formation Led to the Scarcity of Moderately Volatile Elements (MVE) Like ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

It not only contains a Hot Jupiter but also an inner Super-Earth and an icy giant planet. Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

Venus appears low in the evening sky, guiding us to Saturn. Jupiter makes an attractive sight below the Hyades and Mars remains a fine sight.

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.