Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS safely passed Earth this morning as it continues its brief trip through our solar system.

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar system. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 was not just the triumph of mathematics ...

Once thought to be the debris of a destroyed planet, the asteroid belt is now understood as a region shaped by gravity, ...

Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth.

Learn about the collisions between space rocks that have created huge dust clouds, one of which was previously mistaken for ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

This mash-up of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals two galaxies mid-collision, with their spiral arms overlapping and bending toward their neighbors' ...