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

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

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

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The alignm ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.