In August 2025, skywatchers will be treated to a planet parade like no other, with six planets and the Moon visible in the ...

A new study by experts from Nasa and the University of Oxford suggests that Uranus gives out more heat than it receives from ...

An icy object in perfect sync with Neptune reveals new details about planetary migration and unseen bodies far beyond the Kuiper Belt.

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

In a cosmic first, scientists watched planet-forming materials begin to solidify around a newborn star, offering a peek into what our Solar System may have looked like at birth. It’s a stunning replay ...

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...