Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

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The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

While this parade of planets look to our eyes to be huddled in the evening sky, they are of course spread out across a vast chasm of space across the solar system, separated from each other by ...