In a groundbreaking discovery beyond Pluto, scientists have detected a small celestial body that could alter our perception ...

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

A new solar system has been found in the Milky Way. All 6 planets are perfectly in-sync, astronomers say. November 30, 2023 / 3:17 PM EST / CBS/AP ...

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

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram ...

Our Solar System is beautiful, mysterious, largely unknown… and accessible. In the next hundred years, we can send robotic craft, and even human hands, to many of those worlds.

Our infant solar system therefore probably survived a supernova blastwave, according to the researchers, led by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan astrophysicist Doris Arzoumanian.

Science Space Solar System There might be an ice giant planet hiding in our solar system The odds are low, but not zero, that another world lurks in the distant Oort cloud. Briley Lewis ...

Having a blast Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.