Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...
Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...
Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...
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SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...
NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, ...
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 ...
The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...