Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

Our grade school understanding of the Solar System may not take into account the constant discoveries being made in our ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

As humans, we’re curious about how we got here. When we look out at the night sky, we see stars and planets, even galaxies.