The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. The exact boundaries of the solar system ar ...

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...

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Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

“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 Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn ...

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

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

Astronomers discover Ammonite, a rare icy object beyond Pluto, challenging Planet Nine theory and offering clues to the solar system’s ancient origins.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday ...

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