About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

It was spotted in the spiral galaxy NGC 3627, around 31 million light-years from our solar system in the constellation Leo.

Webb Telescope is investigating the formation of moons around a massive planet. Astronomers are using the data to study the ...

Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...

The asteroid belt orbiting between Mars and Jupiter would hurl fragments if it got destabilized, turning it into dust upon mutual collisions.

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

A research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved a significant breakthrough through international collaboration. They utilized the Atacama ...

While the Moon’s near side and far side display different surfaces, could their interiors differ, as well? This is what a recent study published in N | Space ...

A study published in the journal Nature Astronomy challenges traditional explanations about the origin of the innermost planet in the Solar System and proposes a more likely scenario. The collision ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...