Astronomers have found the strongest evidence to date that planets outside our solar system possess magnetic fields.

The early solar system may have been far more chaotic than we ever imagined. A new study published in Icarus suggests that ...

On this planet, clouds emerge every morning and disappear by night as astronomers study the giant exoplanet WASP-94A b using ...

New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

Another puzzle piece in how our solar system formed. The post Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet ...

NASA’s next great space telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble. It’s about to arrive in Florida for launch in September.

Two pairs of ‘rogue’ Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...