The Sun is a powerful, awe-inspiring force at the center of our solar system. Its brilliance lights up our sky and sustains ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

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