A 24-year-old observatory assistant from the Midwest discovered Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh, born in 1906 in Streator, Illinois, ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, a massive gas giant so enormous that its gravitational influence reaches ...

Learn how a magnetic field may have helped shape the Solar System, embedding traces of ancient magnetism within a meteorite ...

Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to ...

If interstellar travel proves impossible, humanity may still build a vast civilization inside the Solar System. Radiation, ...

Since the first discovery of a planet orbiting another star in 1992, some 280 alien solar systems have been identified. Most look quite unlike ours, and for good reason. Planets are mainly spied by ...

We live in uninteresting times. Since the ructions that created the planets in the solar system’s first 100 million years (see “How was the solar system built?”) – and apart from an early migration of ...

Learn how Pluto nearly kept its planet status in a proposed 12-planet Solar System as its demotion marks its 20th anniversary ...

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.

Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Found in the northern sky, GJ 3378b is a potentially rocky world with liquid water on its surface, receiving 90% of the ...