The newly discovered world — a "sednoid" — challenges what planetary scientists thought they knew about the edge of the solar ...

There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. The exact boundaries of the solar system ar ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...