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

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

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

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

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

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

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

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

The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

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

KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...

The photos reveal a bright and well-developed coma, the cloud of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus, with striking ...