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

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

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

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

Our sun, currently in its prime, is expected to shine for another 5 billion years. Eventually, it will transform into a red ...

Utah is embracing innovative technological solutions with new legislation promoting off-grid solar energy. This video ...

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

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

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

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

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

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...