While Loeb is known for making some controversial claims and predictions in the past, he is still a very respected astronomer ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Voyager 1 has been exploring the cosmos for decades, but when it reached the edge of the solar system, it found something ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The object is a comet hailing from the direction of the constellation ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...

IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...