Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

A new planetary system is forming around the young star HOPS-315. Scientists observed the earliest stages of planet formation around another star. The process involves the cooling and solidifying of ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

Astronomers have made a significant breakthrough in space exploration by discovering over 6,000 planets outside our solar ...

The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...

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