New observations show that planets forming in protoplanetary disks like that around PDS 70 can trigger the formation of ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our Solar System well organized and ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...

However, planets may not be necessary for life ... 100 K and pressure differences of 10 kPa against the vacuum of space can ...

The moderate tilts and slightly elongated paths of these planets — long considered a mystery — could be the result of a ...

Comets are icy bodies that formed alongside the planets in the early Solar System before being flung into its distant outer ...

The rain it raineth every day, as Shakespeare noted, apparently even on Saturn. The cosmos, it seems, is no comfort at this ...

Massive object passing through solar system is a better explanation for nature of orbits of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune ...

The findings reveal the distribution of ices in the early solar system and how TNOs evolve when they travel inward into the region of the giant planets between Jupiter and Saturn, becoming centaurs.

In recent years, Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites in our solar system. How many moons does ...