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

The curious minds at What If investigate the cosmic chaos caused by swapping the orbits of certain planets in our solar ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

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

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

Flower Mound, Texas, was named one of the best places to live in the U.S. The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the ...

Planetarium and Program Coordinator Katy Downing of the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center shares the visible planets and ...

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 ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

An international planet hunt spearheaded by Monash University researchers has discovered evidence of five new baby planets, ...