Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

Scientists have simulated what happens when a solar system pushes the limits of gravity and stability — and the results redefine what “possible” means. Past a certain scale, planets begin to drift, ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Astronomers revealed Wednesday they have detected a storm on a star other than our Sun for the first time, discovering an ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing diamonds. Scientists recreate these conditions in labs, discovering ...

TOI-2267 is made up of two small and cool stars. The team confirmed the presence of two exoplanets, and there is strong evidence for the presence of a third one. The two stars are not next to each ...

I believe extraterrestrial intelligence (in AI form) could be concealed under the lunar surface," Alex Ellery told Newsweek.

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

System Era Softworks will release a PlayStation 5 version of interplanetary exploration game Astroneer on November 20, the developer announced. It will be a free upgrade from the PlayStation 4 ...