A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it ...

With an image from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA finds clues outside the solar system that explain crystals born in ...

Jupiter, without a doubt, is ⁠the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large – by ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

Imagine you fly into a wormhole... Would you ever hear back? Where would you end up? Back in time? Another galaxy? Here's what would happen if a wormhole formed in our Solar System. We asked retired ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar system's formation and early evolution.

Scientists watched a solar flare grow from tiny magnetic sparks into a violent plasma-raining avalanche on the Sun.

New research data using NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than decades-old estimates.

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...