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The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar system. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 was not just the triumph of mathematics ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

LONDON — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper's authors have ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building bodies. The structures often resemble our asteroid and Kuiper belts, hinting ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up in the night sky at once this week. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a great ...

There's a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic mystery. Astronomers have cataloged a frozen minor planet called 2017 OF201, ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from. The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the ...