A new study of a forming planet shows it doesn't match the chemical makeup of its birth disk, challenging pas theories on how ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

Discover what astronomers are learning about an ancient ice giant traveling through our solar system that's a strange hybrid ...

Venus will pass to the north of the much-fainter bluish star Regulus (in Leo, the Lion) on the morning of Sept. 19; the planet and star will appear low in the east-northeast predawn sky, separated by ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...

we found that our solar system contains two different types of dark comets.” Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar system, which includes the planets Earth, Venus, Mars and ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe is set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun when it flies within a few ...

Although our solar system is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic ...