Theoretically, there is room for thousands. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The solar system contains eight planets: Mercury, ...

The solar system’s retinue of known, faraway worlds has gained another member: a small, icy body that takes 40,000 years to plod once around the sun, traveling farther away from our home star than all ...

Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even bigger gas plants — behemoths called "super-Jupiters." In the cosmic ...

Artist Impression of LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Credit: NASA Ever since the telescope was invented in 1608, astronomers have striven for bigger and better telescopes. When it comes ...

A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of Texas at Austin has probed the formation process of giant exoplanets and brown dwarfs, a class of objects that are more massive than ...

Comets are primarily composed of ice and dust, originating from the outer solar system, and are characterized by a coma and tail that become visible as they approach the Sun on their often elliptical ...