Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing diamonds. Scientists recreat ...

Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

Our solar system now, once again, officially consists of only eight planets. Although largely debunked, speculation continued ...

Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first direct look at material within a disk encircling a massive exoplanet ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...