A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Planet Y is the latest in a series of hypothetical solar system planets that scientists have proposed in recent years, all with slightly different characteristics, but collectively believed to be ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has gathered significant scientific attention, and soon it will reach its closest point to ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System, completing a rotation in less than 10 hours. This rapid spin ...