The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...
Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...
Blasting around the equators of the solar system's giant planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are fierce jet ...
A discovery in V883 Orionis' planet-forming disk suggests Earth's water could have come from ancient interstellar ice that ...
Astronomers are watching a new comet pass through our solar system with great interest. Based on its glow, the 33-billion-ton ...
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...
A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...
The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.
When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...
For almost a decade, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in the solar system. Recently, new evidence of ...
Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...
Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as ...