For decades, researchers have been studying the formation of rings around planets like Saturn in an attempt to understand what criteria have to be met in order to make and sustain these rings. It was ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

Kazakhstanis have a chance to see the well-known comet 3I/ATLAS. Expert Maksim Krugov explained how this can be done.

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

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

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa is cloaked in a smooth icy shell cracked with fine ridges. Scientists believe that beneath this frozen surface lies a saltwater ocean - possibly holding twice as much water as ...

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.