Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

Might the first moments of planet formation be more understandable than ever before? Fresh observations suggest that the creation of worlds such as our own is perhaps happening right in front of us, ...

Scientists have watched a solar system being born for the first ever time. Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the ...

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

Astronomers have captured the earliest stages of planet formation around a young sun-like star, offering a rare glimpse into the birth of a solar system. The discovery provides the first conclusive ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system.

Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown as a small ellipse around the Sun. Imagine a giant planet drifting far ...