Explore how gravity changes across planets, ending with a powerful look at the Sun's extreme gravitational force ...

A team of scientists led by expert Raúl Jiménez, ICREA researcher at the University of Barcelona's Institute of Cosmos ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe the ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Even then, it had to do a total of six gravity assists past Mercury to match the planet’s orbital speed around the sun. The last assist was in January 2025, and it will enter Mercury orbit in ...

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.