Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies offering crucial insights into the solar system’s formation.

Auroras are beautiful phenomena on Earth, but they aren't specific to this planet. In fact, they appear on many other planets ...

Venus will pass to the north of the much-fainter bluish star Regulus (in Leo, the Lion) on the morning of Sept. 19; the planet and star will appear low in the east-northeast predawn sky, separated by ...

The odd atmosphere of a fledgling exoplanet is causing astronomers to question leading theories of how planets form.

New observations show that planets forming in protoplanetary disks like that around PDS 70 can trigger the formation of ...

Carrying out simulations to try and discover what best explains the orbits of these objects, the team found that a model that ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy.

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

and sustaining temperature gradients of 25-100 K and pressure differences of 10 kPa against the vacuum of space can allow ...

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

The Moon's relationship with Earth is crucial for stabilising our planet's axial tilt and influencing tides, but this still ...