Saturn’s bright rings are one of the most recognizable sights in the Solar System. Yet new analyses of data from NASA’s Cassini mission suggest they may be far younger than many people assume. That ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, ...

The active centres of galaxies might be regions of extraordinary planet formation, where millions of worlds are born. Most ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

A team of researchers has pinpointed a key region in the early Solar System where the building blocks of planets, called ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered surprising evidence about how enormous “super Jupiter” ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests 3I/ATLAS may carry extraterrestrial life, sparking debate on panspermia; evidence remains unproven.

Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The ...

NASA Psyche spacecraft Mars images from the May 15 gravity-assist flyby are now fully released, confirming all four science ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating ...