Jan. 21, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

When looking at our solar system, the planets going around the sun seem to be set up in a pretty organized fashion. They are ...

There are many theories about how dynamics in the early solar system led to the cosmic neighbourhood we now inhabit, but ...

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

If you get the question in Trivial Pursuit “how many plantes are there in the Solar System?”, depending on when you went to school or how old the version is, there’s a fair chance of giving ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The night sky throughout the solar system may be full of color. From data gleaned from a joint European-Japanese spacecraft on ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains ... this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more conducive ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...