New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

"The national security establishment has already been doing this for five decades but thought that no one could replicate it, ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...

The study of young stars like EK Draconis has offered fresh insights into the violent activity of our Sun in its youth. By ...

In a few billion years, our Sun will become so violently hot that it could wipe out all life in the Milky Way. Yet, ...

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of particles that shoot out from the Sun.

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...