It happened 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was full of orbiting space rocks. This debris clumped up in a ...

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

Snapchat Friend Solar System is a premium feature that lets you visualize your closest friends as planets that revolve around ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

"It took three unsuccessful attempts before we got it right, but when we did, it appeared exactly as we had imagined it; as a ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

Texas Senator John Cornyn announced a $1 billion MARS Act to upgrade NASA's Johnson Space Center to better support ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational waves.