An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S.

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...