Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the elusive zodiacal light. Caused by light reflecting and scattering off dust in the plane of our solar system, one of the best times to ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

February will be an awe-inspiring month for astronomy enthusiasts who will be able to the see the solar system's planets ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system's formative stages and played a critical role in planetary formation.

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ... New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Discover the real reason behind Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet and the science that led to this change.