The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary science. They have reconstructed Jupiter’s physical state at a precise moment ...

One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomyhas provided compelling evidence for a frozen ocean world on the dwarf planet ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

A s the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else ...

The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.

The presence of water-ice in the debris disk around a young star could have helped facilitate the growth and development of ...

A camera built at Arizona State University is on its way to check for signs of life above Jupiter, but it detoured to Mars for testing.

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

Astronomers believe that our solar system may still hold surprises, with ongoing efforts to find a hidden ninth planet, often referred to as Planet Nine or Planet X. If confirmed, this discovery ...