Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system.It’s about the length of eight football fields — but it fully rotates every two minutes, or even a little faster ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a colossal missing piece of the Solar System, a giant planet that appears to ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

Jupiter and Saturn host strikingly different polar storms, despite being similar giant planets, and scientists have long wondered why. New simulations suggest the answer may lie deep below the clouds.

Now, using the world's largest radio telescope project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...

An atmospheric study reveals unexpected findings about our largest neighboring planet and the structure of its deep atmosphere.

Glance over your best 8 friends in your personal Solar System ...