Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s oddities. Now, researchers have unlocked key insights about this ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

The first clue came from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, launched in 2018 to watch large areas of sky for tiny, repeating dips in starlight. Each dip marks a transit and reveals an ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...

What can rocky planets orbiting in the outer parts of a solar system teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study | Space ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

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Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...

An inside-out planetary system around the star LHS 1903 is turning everything that astronomers know about planet formation upside down.

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...