The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

What is the Solar System truly like? In this video, we take a closer look at real images captured by NASA and other space agencies, showcasing our planets and the vast beauty of the Milky Way ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

The Solar System's Attic During the early chaos of the solar system, Jupiter is thought to have flung trillions of comets and perhaps a few planets into deep space.

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

The Solar System is roughly 4.5 billion years old. The whole of Mars is as cold as our South Pole. There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on all of our beaches on Earth.

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will eventually become planets and other objects. Observing this early phase of ...

The superclouds probably produce star-forming clouds of gas, since most nearby stellar nurseries are located within the giants.