SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling at an incredible 430,000 miles per hour - faster than any human-made object ...

Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice giant and how it can help us understand more about planets in our Solar ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to the ...

Later in December, the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet will get as close to Earth as it ever will. Here's what to know.

Pluto, the most famous dwarf planet, lost its planet status in 2006. Learn more about dwarf planets of the solar system here. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been granted a mission extension that will ...

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This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of ...

This discovery was made by two of NASA’s most celebrated telescopes. This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, two ...