The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere ...

Beyond the edge of Neptune, a distant realm of icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt stretches deep into space. This frozen ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. By studying computer models and observing the creation of other star ...

Explore the state-of-the-art astronomy gallery at the Regional Science Centre and Planetarium in Kozhikode inaugurated by ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, was once so big that ... independently of complex accretion models that depend on a series of assumptions." ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

The core of the Red Planet may be filled with sulfur. New experiments have shown that the core of Mars formed much faster ...

They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar system's orbital architecture may have evolved differently with the formation of a planet that is at least twice the size of Earth's mass—a ...

The way comets behave in space may seem random, but new research suggests there’s more order behind the chaos than once ...