A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. By Katherine Kornei If our species manages to hang ...

The flares may heat up and inflate the planet's atmosphere, which is dominated by hydrogen and helium. Being lashed by these ...

A meteorite, Northwest Africa 12264, is questioning the established timeline of our solar system's formation, suggesting ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of conventional astronomy theory, and is making experts reconsider conventional ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

In the 1980s, the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor that hit the Earth began to gain scientific ...

NASA has made a new out of this world discovery. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently captured evidence of a new planet ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...