Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

Short-lived radioisotopes such as aluminum-26 influenced early solar system heat, water retention and the formation of Earth-like rocky planets, according to meteorite analyses and models.

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

Relying on information from NASA's TESS telescope, astronomers Edward Bryant from the University of Warwick and Vincent Van ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

On Monday, Jan. 12, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in partnership with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and Blue Canyon ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is more structured than long believed ...

The recent visit to our solar system by the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation about whether it’s another ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...