Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Dune filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, opens up about his grief following the passing of David Lynch. Read his full comments here.

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

The potential discovery of a large planet beyond Neptune’s orbit could change everything we know about the Solar System. Learn how scientists detected it and what steps NASA is taking to verify its ...

Models of planetary development offered further support for the hypothesis, suggesting a planet entirely different from the mini-Neptunes that dominate ... our understanding of the diversity of ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...