A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe, the history-making Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft that has flown closer to the ...

Astronomers who have debated why these globular icy objects look the way they do finally have an answer ...

Could moons beyond our solar system support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Soci | Space ...

Astronomers studying the Kuiper Belt have detected a strange distortion that could point to an unknown planet lurking far beyond Neptune.

Ever wondered how those weird, floating \"snowmen\" way out in the deep freeze of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit ...

A new type of planet has been discovered beyond our Solar System - a burning liquid ball of lava where temperatures reach ...

How can scientists use spin as a fossil record for planetary evolution? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal ho | Space ...

Located just 35 light-years away, this world is roughly 1.6 times the size of Earth. But don’t call it a twin. It’s a scorching, pungent orb wrapped in an atmosphere of hydrogen and sulfur, perched ...

The classical idea of the so—called "Goldilocks zone" - the area around a star where the temperature allows liquid water to exist — may be too simplistic. A new work by astrobiologists suggests a more ...

A new study suggests the Sun moved outward with many similar stars during a large Milky Way migration event long ago.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

It provides a dynamic, time-resolved view of planetary transformation, a missing link between young inflated worlds and the compact sub-Neptunes that populate the galaxy.