It’s a cosmic season in Southern California; look for the unveiling of Griffith Observatory’s Celestial Globe, too.

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's ...

Scientists believe our solar system may be hiding a secret world — and it’s not the famous Planet X :eyes: A new study ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

Unlike earlier studies, which often examined chemistry and atmospheric motion separately, the new simulations combined both.

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A solar conjunction occurs as Venus' orbit carries it into alignment with the sun and Earth. Venus will align with the sun ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...