What is a brown dwarf star? These formations often defy classification, blurring the line between planets and stars.

Snapchat Friend Solar System is a premium feature that lets you visualize your closest friends as planets that revolve around ...

Scientists have proposed a fascinating new idea: Earth may have once possessed a ring system, akin to that of Saturn. These ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

Our Solar System has eight planets, a few dwarf planets and more than 200 moons. But wait. Are you seeing double? Or did ...

In a Game Rant interview, two devs at Frontier Developments discuss further Planet Coaster 2's power system, heatmaps, ...

Mission concepts to the outer solar system are relatively common, as planetary scientists are increasingly frustrated by our lack of knowledge of the farthest planets. Neptune, the farthest known ...