Learn about cryovolcanism, which shapes the surface of icy moons in the outer Solar System by releasing water that ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...

Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space—and revealed the unstable ...

NISAR, built jointly by NASA and India’s space agency and launched on Wednesday, will use radar to monitor tiny changes ...

"If Earth were to leave the solar system, it's very likely that the vast majority of life as we know it would disappear. Almost all the energy used by Earth's living organisms originates from the ...

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, a vast cloud of gas and dust called a molecular cloud drifted through the Milky Way. Composed ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

Around 40 light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets have been spotted orbiting closely around a small, ultra-cool star. It’s one of the largest solar systems that’s ever been discovered ...