A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...
New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...
The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...
Our solar system didn't form by accident. This video explains the blueprint that created rocky worlds like Earth and Mars ...
SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...
Journey beyond the asteroid belt to explore the solar system's majestic giants and mysterious outer reaches. We break down ...
TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...
Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...
Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.
A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...
Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...
A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...