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

The Solar System, home to Earth and countless other fascinating planets and moons, exists within the Milky Way galaxy. But ...

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

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and ...

"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 future of our solar system has long captivated both scientists and stargazers alike. As highlighted in a recent Live ...

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

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

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