Asteroids and comets from Alpha Centauri are lurking on the outer edges of our solar system. There is a record of two ...

Uncover the Webb Telescope's fascinating discovery of a 34-million-year-old planet-forming disk around a red star.

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, ...

A rare isotope from the early solar system may be locked in Earth's core, revealing insights into planetary formation ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

The study of the universe is a subject that never ceases to amaze the scientific community. If being able to know what is beyond our atmosphere has been something that has always b ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show '3 ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

A total lunar eclipse occurs this month. Venus transitions from evening to morning, while Mars and Jupiter dominate the late ...