The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

For now, we’re just going to have to trust the simulations, and rework our mental pictures of the Solar System once again. Jackie is a writer and editor from Pennsylvania. She's especially fond of ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found? The answer, it turns out, depends on your definition of a moon. But this is likely just "the tip of the iceberg," Edward Ashton, an astronomer ...

Now, twin studies published in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy are writing the next chapter ... hold were widespread across the early Solar System. “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already ...