Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

THE question of the origin of the solar ... original body might break up into two parts. Moulton, on the other hand, has shown that the actual rotation could not be so rapid as to make the system ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

In the young solar system, the four gas giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn ... constraining both the size of the original parent body and the time it must have taken to cool before being broken ...

Sep. 19, 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

Now every other world in our solar system will be visible among the stars ... Even higher up, almost directly overhead, will be Jupiter, sparkling at about one-tenth the brightness of Venus.