Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...

The US, China, India, Europe and Japan all have exciting missions on the horizon in 2026. Many of them are collaborative ...

A rare triple conjunction of Venus, Mars and Mercury is happening on the opposite side of the solar system to where Earth is, ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...