Led by Purdue University assistant professor Cauê Borlina during his time at MIT, alongside senior author Benjamin Weiss, the ...

A 24-year-old observatory assistant from the Midwest discovered Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh, born in 1906 in Streator, Illinois, ...

Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to ...

Learn how a magnetic field may have helped shape the Solar System, embedding traces of ancient magnetism within a meteorite ...

Earth is far from the only celestial body in the Solar System.

Since the first discovery of a planet orbiting another star in 1992, some 280 alien solar systems have been identified. Most look quite unlike ours, and for good reason. Planets are mainly spied by ...

Learn how Pluto nearly kept its planet status in a proposed 12-planet Solar System as its demotion marks its 20th anniversary ...

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only two confirmed ...