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 ...

Observations of the young HOPS-315 star system show an environment analogous to what our own nascent Solar System would have ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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