At first glance, the night sky appears still. But in reality, everything moves, our Solar System being no exception. As it ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

As the solar system moved through this dust-rich region, Earth may have received an increased influx of interstellar particles.

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

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

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 ...

MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...