The enigma of the intruder about the same size as Manhattan Island is making astronomers rethink what they know about cosmic ...

With the recent discovery of traces of what may or may not be or have been life on Mars, eyes are turning to another world in ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is absolutely blasting out water at a staggering rate, astronomers found.

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS which is racing through our solar system, has once again baffled scientists with its ...

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...

Damanveer Singh Grewal suggests that planetesimals in the early solar system emerged from a succession of high-energy ...

A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb currently says there is a 30-40 percent chance the object is not natural in origin.

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...