How Did the Solar System Form? The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system.

The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the ...

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

This is like getting a baby picture of our own solar system,' says Gabriel Weible, University of Arizona graduate student who contributed to research - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, detected a planet growing inside a cleared gap of a protoplanetary disk, confirming long-held theories about how young planets shape their star systems.

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered something about the interstellar comet that's never been observed before, ...

How Did the Solar System Form? The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system.