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 ...

JWST observations of 72 young planetary systems suggest powerful magnetic winds dominate early disk evolution before giving ...

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

Unpopular opinion time, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet was a great thing for our understanding of the solar ...

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 ...

Some pairs of stars could produce long radio pulses through a mechanism similar to the one connecting Jupiter to its moon Io.