Discover how a rare "kiss and capture" impact gave rise to the Pluto-Charon binary system, shedding new light on the evolution and motion of icy worlds in the outer solar system. (CREDIT: NASA) ...

The two largest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, also have the largest satellite systems, or the most moons.

A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born. In particular, a new study of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

A rare planetary system has been discovered that mirrors the structure of our solar system, exoplanet formation, and gas ...

A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...

Planetary scientists led by Paolo Sossi have determined that Earth assembled almost entirely from material originating in the ...

Planetary scientists Paolo Sossi and Dan Bower from ETH Zurich have published a peer-reviewed study in Nature Astronomy ...