Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Aimed at the nearby star PDS 70, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching newborn planets take shape before our eyes in ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the “habitable zone” of a nearby star similar to our sun ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along a line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic. For that reason, planets in our Earthly sky always appear somewhere along a ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be tough to see without a telescope or high ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...