Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

A student has unraveled a long-standing cosmic enigma concerning some of our solar system’s most peculiar objects: icy ...

In the distant reaches of the solar system are many icy objects that resemble snowmen. Now, a new study reveals the simple ...

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sit down with Dr. Lulu Zhao, an ...

O n the outer edge of our solar system, past Neptune’s orbit, lies the Kuiper Belt, a wide band of small bodies drifting lazily in orbit around the sun. Leftover from the formation of the solar system ...

McGill University researchers used deep-learning computer vision to analyze 719 solar projects across the Western U.S. The study establishes a new “land-sparing” benchmark, providing developers with ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly ...

Astronomers studying the Kuiper Belt have detected a strange distortion that could point to an unknown planet lurking far beyond Neptune.

Researchers have finally determined the shape of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble that protects our Solar System from galactic radiation. Unlike previous models, this zone, generated by solar wind ...

Computer simulations suggest NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory could detect Earth-like exomoons around gas giant exoplanets through reflected starlight and lunar eclipses.

Astronomers already know how planetary systems are born and how they look once they ...