Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

In a cosmic first, scientists watched planet-forming materials begin to solidify around a newborn star, offering a peek into ...

Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

In an incredible animation by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronomer James O'Donoghue, the true scale of the Solar System can truly be appreciated, as well as the rotational speeds ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) ...

While the Sun is the centre of our solar system, it only makes up about 99.8 per cent of the mass of the entire solar system. So, the Sun's centre is not exactly located on the barycentre of the ...

The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the ...

1. Make way for the king of the solar system! New Webb images of Jupiter highlight the planet's features, including its turbulent Great Red Spot (shown in white here), in amazing detail.

If this doesn't seem like a big deal, consider that every image you have ever seen of the sun was taken from around our star's equator. That is because Earth, the other solar system planets, and ...