Journey beyond the asteroid belt to explore the solar system's majestic giants and mysterious outer reaches. We break down ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that Uranus and Neptune could be far rockier on the inside than anyone expected.

The findings represent the first major results from OASIS, a program that uses advanced telescope instruments to seek out ...

The two outermost planets in the solar system are generally considered ice giants, yet we know little about their interiors.

Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Walking into a classroom today is like stepping into a parallel universe, because so many things that once sounded rock solid ...

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have created an extraordinary set of images showing debris disks in a wide ...