While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Super-Earths are rocky planets larger than Earth with thin ... our understanding of the diversity of planets (just like this strange object in our Solar System). While additional observations are ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

In comparison, the fastest wind ever measured in the Solar System was found on Neptune ... patterns and expand this research to smaller, rocky planets," Nortmann concludes. Note * While the ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...