Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, known for its massive size, strong gravity, powerful storms and many moons ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.

States with booming data center construction are seeing spikes in new power needs. Much of it is being met by coal and solar.

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

Astronomers are once again questioning whether our solar system is complete. Subtle gravitational effects suggest something ...

Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its diameter expands more than a hundredfold, engulfing any unlucky planets in ...

Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

Far from the Sun, Uranus sits tipped on its side, carrying a magnetic system unlike any other planet’s. Its equator tilts ...

This results in a composition that is “unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent.” “These new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” Kristina Monsch, ...