New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, ...

An exoplanet in the Trappist star system — a multi-planet star system similar to the solar system and just 39 light-years ...

Jane Huang, an assistant professor of astronomy, grew up in Chicago, but has no strong feelings on whether New York or her ...

However, this is just the average time that it takes for our planet to complete one rotation on its axis based ... the ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study planet formation. They observed the star cluster NGC 346. They found ...

It's an interesting thought experiment; while Borisov and 'Oumuamua were smaller objects, a more massive rogue planet joining our solar system could generate orbital chaos. It could potentially ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecting a ...

The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old. Astronomers believe that roughly 100 million years into its existence, the planets first began to form in a rotating, flat cloud of gas ...

Test your knowledge on our solar system, from the biggest and smallest planets to the behemoth mountain ... Ian is taking a world tour through the different scientific disciplines.