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

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

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

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

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

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

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

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

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning ...

In a cosmic first, astronomers have spotted the earliest signs of rocky planet formation around a young star. The discovery ...