Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

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

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

Such is the case with 3I/ATLAS, a third known interstellar object from outside of our solar system to be discovered, which ...

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

The bold question-askers at What If explore whether our Solar System could survive if it ended up orbiting a black hole.

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Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...