The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...

A powerful new tool comes online this year that could help astronomers locate the mysterious planet hiding somewhere beyond ...

By detecting frozen water in a distant protoplanetary disk located 1,300 light-years away in the Orion Nebula, JWST has unlocked new possibilities for life beyond our Solar System. The detection ...

There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ...

This discovery provides crucial insights into early planetary formation and the potential for life beyond our solar system. JWST's NIRCam instrument observed these compounds, suggesting that the ...

If astrobiologists are ever going to detect life beyond our solar system, it will arguably be done via spectroscopy of an earth-like planet's atmosphere as it passes in front of its parent star.

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make contact. Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam ...

The potential discovery of a large planet beyond Neptune’s orbit could change everything we know about the Solar System.

This remarkable find offers insights into the origins of water and potential planetary systems beyond our Solar System. The disk, named 114-426, lies in the Orion Nebula. Located 1,300 light-years ...

Space agencies around the world are setting their sights on new frontiers, with plans to explore Venus and other distant ...

The Kuiper Belt (also called the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt) is a disc-shaped region beyond the orbit ... new TNOs could revolutionize our theories about how the solar system formed,” said Lykawka.