The sun and moon’s exact size ratio allows solar eclipses on Earth, a phenomenon impossible on other planets and only visible ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting ...

An international team of astronomers has shown for the first time that it is possible to map exoplanets using a technique ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System, completing a rotation in less than 10 hours. This rapid spin ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...