An international research team has discovered a new planet so young that it has yet to emerge from the womb of matter where it is forming. This is the youngest protoplanet discovered to date. It’s ...

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these ...

As the James Webb Space Telescope hurtles through space, it enables Earthbound researchers to look backward in time and study images of planets and galaxies as they looked billions of years ago.

Billions of years ago, in the icy outskirts of the solar system, a dramatic collision forged the unusual pairing of Pluto and its moon, Charon. This celestial dance defied expectations, birthing a ...