Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as an interstellar ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...