The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

Advanced space travel relies on a fundamental understanding of the restricted three-body problem (RTBP), in which one of the ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are waiting to be discovered.

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly observed the formation of a planet. An international team, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, detected WISPIT 2b, a young gas giant ...

Daniel W.E. Green at the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, suggests that comet SWAN will hover near magnitude of +6, ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...