Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System, completing a rotation in less than 10 hours. This rapid spin ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...

Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing ...

Since Pluto was relegated to dwarf planet status, almost everyone has agreed that there are eight planets in our solar system ...

The Earth's Moon is its only one, but scientists recently discovered a new celestial body that will be staying near the planet for the next several decades.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that high-pressure reactions between ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...