Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...

Discover Our Solar System Through Detailed 3D Models Forget dusty textbooks and flat diagrams. We’re talking about ...

While there is no reason to panic, please be aware that a visitor born near a star other than our Sun is currently passing ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The 15 planet-forming disks around young stars that have been studied in detail by exoALMA. Here ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist. New research, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, is set to reshape ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from. The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...