A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan, told Live Science in an email. Astronomers have found dozens of new planetary moons ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue ... The findings were published March 6 in The Planetary Science Journal. Interstellar objects are ...

Both groundbreaking missions promise to reveal previously unseen and unknown aspects of our solar system and galaxy. “These missions cover the full breadth of the science that NASA does every ...

Both groundbreaking missions promise to reveal previously unseen and unknown aspects of our solar system and galaxy. “These missions cover the full breadth of the science that NASA does every ...

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 ...