Astronomers have recently tracked a massive rogue planet, referred to as a “super-Jupiter,” that is drifting toward our solar neighborhood. This discovery has captured the attention of the scientific ...

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disc of dust and gas with multiple rings. The ground-breaking discovery was made using European Southern ...

Billions of years ago, Jupiter’s violent growth transformed the young solar system, smashing icy and rocky bodies together at incredible speeds. These cataclysmic collisions created tiny molten ...

A rapid reshaping of orbits resulting from a close encounter with Jupiter or Saturn can lead Centaurs to exhibit comet-like activity, according to a Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Eva ...

There's a chance that the newly discovered planet with twice the mass of Jupiter could eventually snuggle up to its star to become a hot Jupiter, but the two will need a cosmic matchmaker. When you ...

An interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, is speeding through our solar system in 2025, marking only the third such visitor. Traveling ...

In some cases, to learn more about our solar system, all we have to do is look at evidence found on Earth. Researchers from Japan's Nagoya University and the Italian National Institute for ...

The spacecraft has embarked on an eight-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, focusing on moons that could offer clues in the search for extraterrestrial life. By Jonathan O’Callaghan ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand-new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter. What's more, the find represents the first clear detection of ...