There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune — a frozen world so far from the Sun that it challenges everything we know about how the solar system formed.

NASA's Artemis program is set to explore the Moon's south pole, a region of perpetual darkness holding clues to the solar ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system. Despite some ...

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

Vermont's residents will soon have a new option in the form of "balcony solar," meaning small-scale solar panels.

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a ...

The Moon's largest, most ancient crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, could rewrite the textbooks on how our Moon was ...

MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...