Using the ALMA telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system for the ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Using a cutting-edge magnetic wave detection technique, a new study in Nature Communications has identified lithium in Mercury's exosphere for the first time.

Scientists say they have found a mysterious 'tiny world' in our solar system. Apparently, the Subaru Telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii has uncovered there's a new 380-kilometer world ...

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid ...

We’ve never known why sunspots can last on our star’s surface for as long as they do, but we finally cracked the case.

The Solar System is a fascinating place, with each planet orbiting the Sun at its own unique distance. But how far apart are ...

This comet, first detected on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS sky survey system, is providing scientists with a rare glimpse into the chemistry and behavior of objects that formed around other stars.

Following a March 21 hearing on Staten Island, arbitrator Joseph J. Maltese ruled against ATTYX LLC, and its affiliated ...

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...

SYFY ’s The Ark follows the crew of an interstellar spacecraft on a multi-light-year journey to the star next door. In the ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...