The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) as they encircle the giant planet. But smaller celestial bodies in the ...

A discovery in V883 Orionis' planet-forming disk suggests Earth's water could have come from ancient interstellar ice that ...

Astronomers are watching a new comet pass through our solar system with great interest. Based on its glow, the 33-billion-ton ...

Did NASA find another Earth? Scientists look to the sky to find a copy of our planet, and some experts think they may have ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Just a few weeks ago, we crossed the significant milestone of 6,000 known exoplanets. The counter keeps getting higher, and there are 8,000 more candidates waiting for confirmation. In the decades ...

The simulation of the Solar System that came the closest to the observation was the presence of a small planet, between the ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

S cientists have confirmed the existence of over 6,100 planets beyond the Solar System in the Milky Way. Something that has ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...