Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. A team of astronomers led by Julio Fernández ...

When news first broke that a foreign body, nicknamed Atlas, had drifted into our solar system from the deep unknown, it ...

Scientists are taking the once-radical concept of dimming the sun through stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) seriously, ...

Once considered a fringe idea, the prospect of offsetting global warming by releasing massive quantities of ...

Star Trek's iconic warp drive, once pure science fiction, is now inspiring real-world astrophysicists. Scientists are developing theoretical models t ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

All sorts of crazy things have been suggested regarding 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object that we've discovered.

In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: small, tornado-like vortices spun off of an ejection from the Sun. These ...