Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Scientists say a nearby red dwarf star hosts a planetary lineup that looks like a mirror image of our own solar system, with ...

In A Nutshell Ancient frozen chemistry: New analysis of pristine samples from asteroid Bennu suggests its amino acids formed ...

Far beyond Neptune, at the cold edge of our solar system, millions of icy objects drift quietly in a region called the Kuiper ...

Once considered a dystopian fantasy, space-based solar could soon transform the renewable energy sector.View on euronews ...

Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University researchers now have evidence of the surprisingly simple process that could ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.