At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

Using images from cameras on Mars orbiters, an international research team has discovered structures on Mars that are very ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, but what if the red planet actually delivered life to Earth in the first place?

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble spotted an unexpected new light source around a nearby star, first mistaken for an exoplanet. JFK's niece has message for man who bought Trump-Kennedy Center domain ...

Nearly 300 years after Immanuel Kant proposed that our solar system’s family of planets condensed from a flattened disk of gas and dust, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed that such planetary ...

Astronomers spotted an object that looks like a planet, weighs about as much as Jupiter, and yet behaves like nothing anyone has seen before. This strange world sits dangerously close to a dead star.

Rare planetesimal collisions observed outside our solar system Dust clouds can mimic planets in telescope images Discovery offers real-time insight into planet formation ...

This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet called PSR J2322-2650b (left) may look like as it orbits a rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar (right). Gravitational forces from the much ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

An unusual object orbiting a rapidly spinning star might be a new phenomenon in the universe. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Earth isn’t a perfect sphere. The rotation of our planet causes it to bulge ever ...