The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

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 and planets, including the young Earth, then a hot, molten sphere likely ...

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 ...

I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object racing toward the Sun, is baffling scientists with its speed and origin. Some ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as ...

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...