"Solar system formation models using the new solar composition successfully reproduce ... This new knowledge gives us a firmer basis for understanding what element abundances in giant planet ...

Neptune's Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar Cycle ... the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Researchers have now developed a single atmospheric model that matches ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...