The status of Pluto not withstanding, our solar system has 8 planets, but one astronomer believes we used to have a ninth ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have confirmed the approach of a “wandering planet” into our solar system. This celestial event has sparked a flurry of scientific interest and speculation.

A TEAM of astrophysicists have made a bombshell scientific discovery after detecting a radio signal coming from beyond the ...

James Webb cannot see chariklo’s rings directly but their shadows revealed that something is happening to them.

For the first time, astronomers have detected radio signals from a planet beyond our solar system, according to a study ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...

Asteroid Bennu's chemical fingerprint is revealing new clues about where it formed and the surprising role Jupiter played in ...

Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory have teamed up to get a fresh ...

If the outer solar system’s first solid bodies had come with a recipe, it would have called for a generous helping of chondrules, millimeter-sized beads of rock forged by heat, and very little icy ...

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...