The James Webb Space Telescope provides an unprecedented view of the places where planets are born: protoplanetary disks, true cosmic cradles. Located about 525 light-years away, in the ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

Using Pluto as an example, this celestial body, once considered the ninth planet, was redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006.

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

Astronomers are buzzing over 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object hurtling through our solar system, and a new theory claims it can create planets.

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Nasa has discovered over 6,000 exoplanets - planets outside our Solar System and continue to search for Earth-like worlds ...