Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. A yellowish-orange glow bathes Phainoterra, a planet of dramatic ...

As published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, theoretical astrophysicists Konstantin Batygin and Jim Fuller of Caltech, ...

Rain is usually made of water, but elsewhere in the Solar System the weather can be unimaginably different. Scientists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory believe that on two giant planets, ...

Some scientists believe the sheer number of stars, planets and potentially habitable environments in space makes ...

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Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published in the journal Icarus, this extra world might have triggered a violent ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...

Could black holes have planets? New research says yes, they could. New simulations suggest massive planets could form in the ...

Just because the Solar System has kept its current configuration for billions of years, it doesn’t mean that it will continue ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...