New research led by the University of Michigan is helping set the stage for future observatories to characterize rocky ...

A nearby star system with two suns could potentially support an Earth-sized planet in a region where liquid water could exist ...

The fact that the Sun (a star) is at the center of the solar system was just a coincidence | The Sun can also wobbleThe Sun ...

If the outer solar system’s first solid bodies had come with a recipe, it would have called for a generous helping of chondrules, millimeter-sized beads of rock forged by heat, and very little icy ...

Ariel, one of Uranus’ moons, may once have contained a subsurface ocean more than 100 miles deep beneath its fractured icy shell. The finding, combined with similar evidence from Miranda, suggests the ...

Exoplanet magnetic field measurement became possible for first time as astronomers used MeerKAT to detect circularly ...

A new study suggests that our solar system’s smallest planet has shrunk by up to 30 percent since its birth roughly 4.5 ...

Our solar system appears beautifully organized, but its stability is actually the result of an incredibly delicate cosmic equilibrium developed over billions of years. Toying with the positioning of ...

Ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus was the first who presented the heliocentric system, maintaining that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

SolarBalls — a space animation that blends comedy with educational content about the solar system and the universe.

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

When the solar system first took up the task of building solid bodies—such as planets, moons and protoplanets—it basically ...